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Title: WITHOUT GOOD REASON
THE RATIONALITY DEBATE IN PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE
By: Edward Stein
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0198237731
ISBN 13: 9780198237730
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 18 December, 1997
Series: Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy
Pages: 312
Description: Without Good Reason offers a clear critical account of the debate in philosophy and cognitive science about whether humans are rational. Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational; certain philosophers, on the other hand, have argued that it is a conceptual truth that humans must be rational. Edward Stein concludes that the question of human rationality should be answered notconceptually but empirically: the resources of a fully developed cognitive science need to be used not only to answer this question but generally in investigations of the nature of human knowledge and understanding.
Synopsis: Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to name a few areas. But can these experiments establish human irrationality, or is it a conceptual truth that humans must be rational, as various philosophers have argued? In this book, Edward Stein offers a clear critical account of this debate about rationality in philosophy and cognitive science. He discusses concepts of rationality - the pictures of rationality that the debate centres on - and assesses the empirical evidence used to argue that humans are irrational. He concludes that the question of human rationality must be answered not conceptually but empirically, using the full resources of an advanced cognitive science. Furthermore, he extends this conclusion to argue that empirical considerations are also relevant to the theory of knowedge - in other words, that epistemology should be naturalized. from the reviews: 'Stein has done a great service in bringing together all of the important arguments in the human rationality debate and providing a measured critical assessment of them...This will be an important book and is essential reading for epistemologists, philosophers of mind, and cognitive and evolutionary psychologists.' Choice 'very considerable value ...for professionals' Times Higher Education Supplement
Illustrations: line figures, tables
Publication: UK
Imprint: Clarendon Press
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