Reasoning: New Essays on Theoretical and Practical Thinking

✍ Scribed by Magdalena Balcerak Jackson, Brendan Balcerak Jackson

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right. Is reasoning a distinctive kind of mental process? If so, what is its nature? How does reasoning differ from merely freely
associating thoughts? What is the relationship between reasoning about what to believe and reasoning about how to act? Is reasoning itself something you do, or something that happens to you? And what is the value of reasoning? Are there rules for good or correct reasoning and, if so, what are they
like? Does good reasoning always lead to justified belief or rational action? Is there more than one way to reason correctly from your evidence? This volume comprises twelve new essays by leading researchers in the philosophy of reasoning that together address these questions and many more, and
explore the connections between them.

✦ Table of Contents

Title_Pages
List_of_Contributors
Questions_about_the_Nature_and_Value_of_Reasoning
Inference_without_Reckoning
A_Linking_Belief_is_Not_Essential_for_Reasoning
Attitudes_in_Active_Reasoning
The_Question_of_Practical_Reason
Is_Reasoning_a_Form_of_Agency
Inference_Agency_and_Responsibility
Isolating_Correct_Reasoning
Small_Steps_and_Great_Leaps_in_ThoughtThe_Epistemology_of_Basic_Deductive_Rules
With_Power_Comes_ResponsibilityCognitive_Capacities_and_Rational_Requirements
When_Rational_Reasoners_Reason_Differently
The_Epistemic_Innocence_of_Optimistically_Biased_Beliefs
Sovereign_Agency
Index