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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward Stein |
ISBN: | 0198237731 9780198237730 0198235747 9780198235743 |
OCLC Number: | 615460123 |
Description: | VIII, 296 Seiten. |
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Series Title: | Clarendon library of logic and philosophy |
Responsibility: | Edward Stein. |
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very clearly written and accessible book.../ Stein has provided a great many points of departure for further exploration into both sides of the central question 'Are we rational?'./ Joshua Gert, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Philosophical Quarterly, April 1999 The book contains a particularly clear apraisal - the best in the literature, I thought - of arguments for the rationality thesis from the "principle of Charity". (C. 4), as well as a careful, thorough and sophisticated examination of the arguments which portray the rationality thesis as the ... outcome of evolution by natural selection ... The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... I strongly recommend itto lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality. * John Preston, Mind * This book's very considerable value is for professionals, on account of both style and content * J. D. Kenyon, Times Higher Education Supplement * The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... it is an excellent attempt at a synoptic cognitivist account of the philosophical implications of the experimental investigation of human rationality. I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality. * John Preston, University of Reading * Read more...

