Man the Rational Animal - Questions and Arguments

This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning rational legitimacy of some widely held beliefs and provides argument-based answers to such questions, while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage with the views put forward and form his/her own judgement.

List of contents

Prefatory Note
Introduction
1. What Can We Know and What May We Rationally Believe?
2. What Are the Necessary and What Are the Sufficient Conditions of Rational Belief?
3. Can It Ever Be Truly Rational to Believe a Falsehood?
4. Does Natural Science Set a Norm for What Can Be Rationally Believed?
5. Is the Belief in Creation Ex Nihilo a Rationally Sustainable Belief?
6. What Rational Justification Might There Be for Acting Morally?
7. Is the Existence of Rational Beings Merely a Fortuitous By-Product of Natural Selection?
Index

About the author

Edo Piv¿evi¿ has taught philosophy for many years at the University of Bristol (UK), and also as Visiting Professor in Germany, United States, Croatia and China. His previous books include Husserl and Phenomenology, The Concept of Reality, Change and Selves, What is Truth?, and The Reason Why.

Product details

• Authors: Piv&, Pivčevic Edo, Edo Piv¿evi¿, Edo Pivcevic, Edo Pivčevic, Pivcevic Edo
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780761872009
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7200-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Western philosophy: Enlightenment