The Ideal of Rationality
- Book ID
- 111050450
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Weight
- 262 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-8051
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Needed for such dialogue games as dialectic are appropriate standards of fairness and rationality. The rules of procedure of dialectic must describe a game playable by actual human participants. The present paper centers on certain idealizations of the dialectician that are not allowable.
Mackenzie, this journal, this issue, convincingly shows that in certain dialogue games (commitment games) there are procedural restrictions similar to those that I impose on rationality idealizations. But, whereas my rationality analysis is set in the context of belief games, commitment games do not
Woods' paper "Ideals of Rationality in Dialogue" raises six problems for dialogue theory. Woods is right about the seriousness of the problems, but one school of dialogue, that stemming from the work of Charles Hamblin, avoids each of Woods' problems by using commitment instead of belief and by usin