The Normativity of Rationality

Benjamin Kiesewetter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-875428-2 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Kiesewetter defends the normativity of rationality by presenting a new solution to the problems that arise from the common assumption that we ought to be rational. He provides a defence of a reason-response conception of rationality, an evidence-relative account of reason, and an explanation of structural irrationality in relation to these accounts

Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational. The Normativity of Rationality is concerned with the question of whether we ought to avoid such irrationality. Benjamin Kiesewetter defends the normativity of rationality by presenting a new solution to the problems that arise from the common assumption that we ought to be rational. The argument touches upon many other topics in the theory of normativity, such as the form and the content of rational requirements, the preconditions of criticism, and the function of reasons in deliberation and advice.

Drawing on an extensive and careful assessment of the problems discussed in the literature, Kiesewetter provides a detailed defence of a reason-response conception of rationality, a novel, evidence-relative account of reasons, and an explanation of structural irrationality in terms of these accounts.

Benjamin Kiesewetter studied philosophy, German literature and cultural studies in Berlin, Nottingham, and Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2014, and worked as a lecturer and research associate at the Australian National University in Canberra, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Hamburg. He works on metaethics, reasons and rationality, children's rights and other normative issues in philosophy.

1: Introduction: the normativity of rationality
2: Rationality, reasons, and criticism
3: Structural requirements of rationality
4: Bootstrapping and other detachment problems
5: The why-be-rational challenge
6: The myth of structural rationality
7: Rationality as responding correctly to reasons
8: An evidence-relative account of reasons
9: Explaining structural irrationality
10: Explaining instrumental irrationality

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 241 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-19-875428-0 / 0198754280
ISBN-13	978-0-19-875428-2 / 9780198754282
Zustand	Neuware