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Author Wagner, Astrid, 1967-

Title Rationality Reconsidered : Ortega y Gasset and Wittgenstein on Knowledge, Belief, and Practice.

Publication Info. Berlin/Boston, UNITED STATES : De Gruyter, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (286).
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Series Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research ; 9
Berlin studies in knowledge research ; 9.
Contents Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations ; On Constraining Rationality and Revisiting the Logic of Beliefs: An Introduction ; Part 1: The Problem of Rationality ; Rethinking Rationality: The Use of Signs and the Rationality of Interpretations.
Rationality, Reason, and Wisdom. On the Significance of Meta-Philosophical Reflection in the Case of Ortega and Wittgenstein Rationality, Philosophy, and Common Sense ; Part 2: Rationality, Pluralism, and Relativism.
Pluralism and Soft Rationality in the Philosophy of Ortega and Wittgenstein Moore and the King. Wittgenstein on the Groundlessness of World-Pictures ; Dynamics of Basic Beliefs in the Philosophical Approaches of Ortega and Wittgenstein ; Part 3: Belief and Knowledge.
Are There Background Beliefs? Belief and Perspective after Ortega and Wittgenstein ; The Life and Logic of Our Beliefs ; Knowledge and the "Favor of Nature"; Part 4: Limits of Rationality ; On Refusing to Believe: Insensitivity and Self-Ignorance.
Counterwill and Logical Priority Over Ideas: Two Constituents of Our Basic Convictions Anatomies of Foolishness 1927-1937; Scientific Rationality, Experience of Limit, and the Problem of Life and Death in 'Tractatus'; Notes on contributors ; Author Index ; Subject Index.
Summary The topic of rationality is treated in a perspective that integrates elements of philosophy of language, ratiovitalism, phenomenology, pragmatism, and philosophy of life. The approach is inspired by Ortega y Gasset and Wittgenstein. The contributions focus on: dynamics of belief and knowledge, the role of world-pictures and forms of life, questions regarding certainty, ignorance, doubt, and madness, as well as matters of pluralism and relativism.
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Subject Knowledge, Theory of.
Knowledge, Theory of.
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