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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.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
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.
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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.
Testo aggiuntivo
Laden has offered us a very detailed and compelling social picture of reasoning . . . path-breaking.
