Rationality Reconsidered
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Astrid Wagner
About this book
This volume treats the topic of rationality developing a perspective that integrates elements of philosophy of language, phenomenology, pragmatism, and philosophy of life.
The two reference authors, Wittgenstein and Ortega, are contemporaries but come from different philosophical traditions. Wittgenstein's early work was influenced by logical positivism. Later he developed an influential approach to philosophy of language. Ortega was influenced by Neo-Kantianism, perspectivism, life philosophy, and phenomenology. On this basis, he developed an independent approach that has become known as ratiovitalism.
Astonishing affinities between their respective reflections on rationality motivated the experiment of bringing the different approaches into a synergetic relation. Both investigate the structures and limits of rationality, emphasize the importance of basic beliefs, and criticize the restriction of rationality concepts to the intellectual sphere.
The contributions of the volume focus on: dynamics of belief and knowledge, implicit and explicit knowledge, the concept of “vital reason”, the role of world-pictures and forms of life, questions regarding certainty, ignorance, doubt, and madness, as well as matters of pluralism and relativism.
Author / Editor information
Astrid Wagner, TU Berlin, Germany; José María Ariso, International University of Rioja, Madrid, Spain.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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List of Abbreviations
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On Constraining Rationality and Revisiting the Logic of Beliefs: An Introduction
1 - Part 1: The Problem of Rationality
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Rethinking Rationality: The Use of Signs and the Rationality of Interpretations
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Rationality, Reason, and Wisdom
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Rationality, Philosophy, and Common Sense
49 - Part 2: Rationality, Pluralism, and Relativism
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Pluralism and Soft Rationality in the Philosophy of Ortega and Wittgenstein
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Moore and the King
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Dynamics of Basic Beliefs in the Philosophical Approaches of Ortega and Wittgenstein
103 - Part 3: Belief and Knowledge
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Are There Background Beliefs?
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Belief and Perspective after Ortega and Wittgenstein
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The Life and Logic of Our Beliefs
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Knowledge and the “Favor of Nature”
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On Refusing to Believe: Insensitivity and Self-Ignorance
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Counterwill and Logical Priority Over Ideas: Two Constituents of Our Basic Convictions
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Anatomies of Foolishness 1927–1937
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Scientific Rationality, Experience of Limit, and the Problem of Life and Death in ‘Tractatus’
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Notes on contributors
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Author Index
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Subject Index
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