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The Mystery of Rationality - Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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The Mystery of Rationality - Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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This book contributes to the developing dialogue between cognitive
science and social sciences. It focuses on a central issue in both
fields, i.e. the nature and the limitations of the rationality of
beliefs and action. The development of cognitive science is one of
the most important and fascinating intellectual advances of recent
decades, and social scientists are paying increasing attention to
the findings of this new branch of science that forces us to
consider many classical issues related to epistemology and
philosophy of action in a new light. Analysis of the concept of
rationality is a leitmotiv in the history of the social sciences
and has involved endless disputes. Since it is difficult to give a
precise definition of this concept, and there is a lack of
agreement about its meaning, it is possible to say that there is a
'mystery of rationality'. What is it to be rational? Is rationality
merely instrumental or does it also involve the endorsement of
values, i.e. the choice of goals? Should we consider rationality to
be a normative principle or a descriptive one? Can rationality be
only Cartesian or can it also be argumentative? Is rationality a
conscious skill or a partly tacit one? This book, which has been
written by an outstanding collection of authors, including both
philosophers and social scientists, tries to make a useful
contribution to the debates on these problems and shed some light
on the mystery of rationality. The target audience primarily
comprises researchers and experts in the field.
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