Man the Rational Animal - Edo Pivcevic

Man the Rational Animal

Questions and Arguments

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2016
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6792-0 (ISBN)
69,80 inkl. MwSt
We share the capacity for knowledge with animals, but it is the nature and the scope of what we may rationally believe that makes us human. Yet what kind of beliefs do qualify as ‘rational’? This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning rational legitimacy of some widely held beliefs and provides argument-based answers to such questions, while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage with the views put forward and form his/her own judgement. The book is typically discursive rather than simply informative, and introduces philosophy by doing it.

The author has taught Philosophy for many years at the University of Bristol (UK), as well as periodically as a Visiting Professor in Germany, the United States and China. The author's previous books include Husserl and Phenomenology, The Concept of Reality, Change and Selves, What is truth? and The Reason Why.

Prefatory Note
Introduction
1. What Can We Know and What May We Rationally Believe?
2. What Are the Necessary and What Are the Sufficient Conditions of Rational Belief?
3. Can It Ever Be Truly Rational to Believe a Falsehood?
4. Does Natural Science Set a Norm for What Can Be Rationally Believed?
5. Is the Belief in Creation Ex Nihilo a Rationally Sustainable Belief?
6. What Rational Justification Might There Be for Acting Morally?
7. Is the Existence of Rational Beings Merely a Fortuitous By-Product of Natural Selection?
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 234 mm
Gewicht 467 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 0-7618-6792-9 / 0761867929
ISBN-13 978-0-7618-6792-0 / 9780761867920
Zustand Neuware
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