On Constraining Rationality and Revisiting the Logic of Beliefs: An Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. On Constraining Rationality and Revisiting the Logic of Beliefs: An Introduction 1
5. Part 1: The Problem of Rationality
6. Rethinking Rationality: The Use of Signs and the Rationality of Interpretations 15
7. Rationality, Reason, and Wisdom 31
8. Rationality, Philosophy, and Common Sense 49
9. Part 2: Rationality, Pluralism, and Relativism
10. Pluralism and Soft Rationality in the Philosophy of Ortega and Wittgenstein 75
11. Moore and the King 89
12. Dynamics of Basic Beliefs in the Philosophical Approaches of Ortega and Wittgenstein 103
13. Part 3: Belief and Knowledge
14. Are There Background Beliefs? 119
15. Belief and Perspective after Ortega and Wittgenstein 125
16. The Life and Logic of Our Beliefs 141
17. Knowledge and the “Favor of Nature” 171
18. Part 4: Limits of Rationality
19. On Refusing to Believe: Insensitivity and Self-Ignorance 187
20. Counterwill and Logical Priority Over Ideas: Two Constituents of Our Basic Convictions 201
21. Anatomies of Foolishness 1927–1937 215
22. Scientific Rationality, Experience of Limit, and the Problem of Life and Death in ‘Tractatus’ 237
23. Notes on contributors 267
24. Author Index 271
25. Subject Index 275