Ideal of Rationality: A Defense, Within Reason

Ideal of Rationality: A Defense, Within

📁 Ideal of Rationality: A Defense, Within Reason

✍ Stephen Nathanson 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Open Court 🌐 English

The Ideal of Rationality presents an evaluation of all the main varieties of rationalism, in clear and jargon-free language. Different notions of rationality - such as means-end, conception, hedonism, and the evil-avoidance view - are examined and rejected, in favor of the theory that to act rationa

Within Reason: Rationality and Human Beh

📁 Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior

✍ Donald Calne 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English

It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?<br>In <b>Within Reason</b>, leading neu

Within reason : a life of Spinoza

📁 Within reason : a life of Spinoza

✍ Gullan-Whur, Margaret; Spinoza, Benedictus de 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 Random House;Pimlico 🌐 English

The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that human beings are parts of a single, unified nature, that God is identical wit

Defending science -within reason: betwee

📁 Defending science -within reason: between scientism and cynicism

✍ Haack, Susan 📂 Library 📅 2007;2015 🏛 Prometheus Books 🌐 English

Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls of sc

Defending Science within Reason: Between

📁 Defending Science within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism

✍ Susan Haack 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Prometheus Books 🌐 English

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Defending Science - within Reason: Betwe

📁 Defending Science - within Reason: Between Scientism And Cynicism

✍ Susan Haack 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Prometheus Books 🌐 English

Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls of sc