Unfinished Business - Rational Attitudes in Reasoning

Unfinished Business makes novel contributions to the study of reasoning and rationality by looking the nature of simple inferences and the conditions under which we can reach justified conclusions.

List of contents

• Part I: The View


• 1: The Big Picture


• 2: The Problem


• 3: The Solution - Introducing Transitional and Terminal Attitudes


• 4: The Solution - Introducing Pro Tem and Pro Toto Rationality


• Part II: The Details


• 5: How to Categorize Attitudes


• 6: Filling in the Definition Schema of Pro Tem Rationality, Condition (I)


• 7: Filling in the Definition Schema of Pro Tem Rationality, Condition (II)


• 8: Open Questions, Objections, and Replies


• Part III: Applications


• 9: Higher-Order Evidence


• 10: Bayesian Double Standards - How to Model Logical Learning


• 11: Reasoning about Philosophy


• 12: Finishing the Job?

About the author

Julia Staffel is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, she held positions at Washington University in St. Louis and the Australian National University. Staffel received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Southern California in 2013. She is the author of Unsettled Thoughts: A Theory of Degrees of Rationality (OUP, 2019).

Summary

Unfinished Business makes novel contributions to the study of reasoning and rationality by looking the nature of simple inferences and the conditions under which we can reach justified conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Staffel, Julia (University of Colorado Boulder) Staffel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9780198916345
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891634-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge