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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"practical rationality"”.
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Consistency in choice and credence
This thesis concerns epistemic and practical rationality. That is, it is about what to believe and what to do. In Chapter 1, 1 argue that theories of practical rationality should be understood as evaluating decisions as opposed to ordinary sorts of non-mental actions. In Chapter 2, I use the …
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Embracing Ethical Life: Hegel on Freedom, Solidarity, and Law
… tradition, and that points to a broad practical rationality culminating in communal self-reflection. Hegelian freedom demands that this broad practical rationality and communal self-reflection be taken up as a form of political perfectionism, and that the state actively promote the …
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The legal fact as a work of art : artificial intelligence and the pragmatics of legal interpretation
… databases useful for legal reasoning without a practical rationality, and secondly that modern legal jurisprudence, inter alia legal positivism and legal realism, has been unable to explain contradictions within the doctrinal discourse thus it is unable to provide a practical structure of …
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Gadamer's ontology: an examination of Hans-Georg Gadamer's concept of being in relation to Heidegger, Plato and Hegel
… different numbers of people develop cultivated practical rationality. I argue that this resting of ontology on an ethical requirement demonstrates that the original extension of the structure Gadamer detects in language and textuality to being itself is highly implausible, and that this casts …
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An Evaluative Framework for the Improvement of Religious Practice in the Context of Pluralism
… no way to prove yet alone maximize the epistemic rationality of continued religious practice, as each religion will claim to have a unique source of knowledge the others do not. However, if we set aside these unverifiable disputes, there remains an often underemphasized common thread: religions …
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The concept rationality in the work of Jurgen Habermas
… "re-thinks" or "reformulates" the concept of rationality and rationalization processes. The method is analytical. The early, later and most recent works of Habermas are analysed with the aim of showing that he approaches the c6ncept of rationality from an unusual perspective which has not been …
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Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge—An Inquiry into the Uncertain Agent
… as agents. On my view, we ought to decouple practical rationality from conscious awareness. This makes room for the possibility to act on reasons we don’t know about, and therefore carves out space for morally relevant inquiries into our motives. However, I also go on to suggest that there is …
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Epistemological implications of representational pluralism
… and our understanding of normative standards of rationality. My discussion of methodological issues begins with the introduction of what I call the analysis problem. The analysis problem is the problem of developing a conceptual analysis of propositional knowledge and justified belief. I argue …
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The making of art: sculptors, artisans, and artists in the Apuan Alps
… of economy and labour, such as technology, practical rationality, and alienation. Methodologically, the analysis combines in-person and remote fieldwork with a historical framework. As an international art centre since the Florentine Renaissance, the Apuan Alps present an ideal location for …