
Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational. The Normativity of Rationality is concerned with the question of whether we ought to avoid such irrationality. Benjamin Kiesewetter defends the normativity of rationality by presenting a new solution to the problems that arise from the common assumption that we ought to be rational. The argument touches upon many other topics in the theory of normativity, such as the form and the content of rational requirements, the preconditions of criticism, and the function of reasons in deliberation and advice. Drawing on an extensive and careful assessment of the problems discussed in the literature, Kiesewetter provides a detailed defence of a reason-response conception of rationality, a novel, evidence-relative account of reasons, and an explanation of structural irrationality in terms of these accounts.
This book investigates whether individuals possess a genuine normative obligation to avoid irrationality in their beliefs and intentions. Benjamin Kiesewetter, a scholar in the field of metaethics and epistemology, evaluates the prevailing assumption that rationality is inherently normative. He constructs a reason-response framework to explain how structural irrationality functions and proposes a novel, evidence-relative account of reasons to resolve long-standing paradoxes in the literature.
What You Will Find
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Experts in metaethics recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to the debate surrounding the normativity of rationality. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which requires a strong background in contemporary analytic philosophy to navigate effectively.
Page Count:
326
Publication Date:
2017-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
ISBN-10:
0192528491
ISBN-13:
9780192528490
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