Normativity of Rationality

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

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Additional text

This is one of the most persuasive and interesting treatments of rationality that I have read.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Kiesewetter, Benjamin (Humboldt University of Berl Kiesewetter, Benjamin (Humboldt University of Berlin) Kiesewetter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780192845849
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284584-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge