Rationality Reconsidered : : Ortega y Gasset and Wittgenstein on Knowledge, Belief, and Practice / / ed. by Astrid Wagner, José María Ariso.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abel, Günter,; Arias, Javier Vilanova,; Ariso, José María,; Gil, Thomas,; Majetschak, Stefan,; Medina, José,; Mulligan, Kevin,; Perona, Ángeles J.,; Rabe, Ana María,; Salas, Jaime de,; Schoellner, Karsten,; Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin,; Tolksdorf, Stefan,; Wagner, Astrid,
• HerausgeberIn: Ariso, José María,; Wagner, Astrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 277 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- On Constraining Rationality and Revisiting the Logic of Beliefs: An Introduction -- Part 1: The Problem of Rationality -- Rethinking Rationality: The Use of Signs and the Rationality of Interpretations -- Rationality, Reason, and Wisdom -- Rationality, Philosophy, and Common Sense -- Part 2: Rationality, Pluralism, and Relativism -- Pluralism and Soft Rationality in the Philosophy of Ortega and Wittgenstein -- Moore and the King -- Dynamics of Basic Beliefs in the Philosophical Approaches of Ortega and Wittgenstein -- Part 3: Belief and Knowledge -- Are There Background Beliefs? -- Belief and Perspective after Ortega and Wittgenstein -- The Life and Logic of Our Beliefs -- Knowledge and the “Favor of Nature” -- Part 4: Limits of Rationality -- On Refusing to Believe: Insensitivity and Self-Ignorance -- Counterwill and Logical Priority Over Ideas: Two Constituents of Our Basic Convictions -- Anatomies of Foolishness 1927–1937 -- Scientific Rationality, Experience of Limit, and the Problem of Life and Death in ‘Tractatus’ -- Notes on contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index