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

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. Wittgen...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research , 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 277 p.)
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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