Being Rational and Being Right

Juan Comesaña presents a new framework for understanding the rationality of action and belief, which he calls Experientalism. Arguing that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence as consisting of the content of undefeated experiences.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Probability and Decision Theory


• 3: Objective Bayesianism and Knowledge-First Epistemology


• 4: Knowledge-Based Decision Theory?


• 5: Excuses, Would-Be Knowledge, and Rationality-Based Decision Theory


• 6: Experientialism


• 7: The Normative Force of Unjustified Beliefs


• 8: The Problem of Easy Rationality


• 9: Evidentialism, Reliabilism, Evidentialist Reliabilism?


• 10: Conclusion

About the author

Juan Comesaña is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and at the University of Arizona and is the co-author of Skepticism: The Basics (Routledge, 2022). He works mainly in epistemology, though he is also interested in metaphysics and metaethics.

Summary

Juan Comesaña presents a new framework for understanding the rationality of action and belief, which he calls Experientalism. Arguing that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence as consisting of the content of undefeated experiences.

Additional text

Being Rational and Being Right ... is a tour de force defense of a simple truth that has become altogether too mysterious to philosophers, and it defends it without falling into any of the central traps into which its opponents so commonly associate this truth's defenders

Product details

• Authors: Juan (Professor Comesana, Juan Comesaña
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2023
• EAN: 9780198878711
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887871-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Decision theory: general