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Anthony Simon Laden explores the kind of reasoning we engage in when we live together: when we are responsive to others and neither commanding nor deferring to them. He argues for a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning, in which reasoning is a species of conversation¿social, ongoing, and governed by a set of characteristic norms.
List of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Part I: An Alternative Picture
- Prologue
- 1: The Initial Sketch
- 2: Authority
- 3: The Rational Significance of Conversation
- Part II: Reasoning Together
- 4: Norms of Conversation
- 5: Reasoning as Responsive Conversation
- 6: Engaged Reasoning
- Part III: Responding
- 7: Responding Reasonably
- 8: Reasonable Responses
- 9: Intelligible Responses
- Bibliography
About the author
Anthony Simon Laden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Reasonably Radical: Deliberative Liberalism and the Politics of Identity (Cornell, 2001) and co-editor, with David Owen, of Multiculturalism and Political Theory (Cambridge, 2007). He has written numerous articles on reasoning, deliberation, democratic theory, and the work of John Rawls.
Summary
Anthony Simon Laden explores the kind of reasoning we engage in when we live together: when we are responsive to others and neither commanding nor deferring to them. He argues for a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning, in which reasoning is a species of conversation--social, ongoing, and governed by a set of characteristic norms.
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Laden has offered us a very detailed and compelling social picture of reasoning . . . path-breaking.
