Fitting Things Together - Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality

Some combinations of attitudes--beliefs, credences, intentions, preferences, hopes, fears, and so on--do not fit together right: they are incoherent. A natural idea is that there are requirements of "structural rationality" that forbid us from being in these incoherent states. Yet many philosophers have recently attempted to minimize or eliminate structural rationality, arguing that it is just a "shadow" of "substantive rationality"--that is, correctly responding to one's reasons. In Fitting Things Together, Alex Worsnip pushes back against this trend, providing the first sustained defense of the view that structural rationality is a genuine, autonomous, unified, and normatively significant phenomenon.

Sommario

• Preface


• Part I: Dualism about Rationality Defended


• Chapter 1 Getting Structural (Ir)rationality into View


• Chapter 2 A Rough Account of Substantive Rationality


• Chapter 3 Eliminations and Reductions I


• Chapter 4 Eliminations and Reductions II


• Part II: A Theory of Structural Rationality


• Chapter 5 Unifying the Instances of Incoherence


• Chapter 6 Requirements of Structural Rationality


• Chapter 7 Talk about Structural Rationality


• Chapter 8 The Normativity of Structural Rationality


• Part III: Drawing Some Lessons


• Chapter 9 Upshots for Other Debates


• Coda The Tyranny of Value


• References

Info autore

Alex Worsnip is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in epistemology, ethics, and the theory of rationality. He is the author of over twenty articles in leading philosophy journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Ethics, and Noûs.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alex Worsnip, Alex (Associate Professor of Philosophy Worsnip
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.11.2023
• EAN: 9780197608142
• ISBN: 978-0-19-760814-2
• Pagine: 360
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge