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Apprehension - Reason in the Absence of Rules (Paperback)
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Apprehension - Reason in the Absence of Rules (Paperback)
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This book introduces and explores the role of apprehension in
reasoning - setting out the problems, determining the vocabulary,
fixing the boundaries, and questioning what is often taken for
granted. Lynn Holt argues that a robust conception of rationality
must include intellectual virtues which cannot be reduced to a set
of rules for reasoners, and argues that the virtue of apprehension,
an acquired disposition to see things correctly, is required if
rationality is to be defensible. Drawing on an Aristotelian
conception of intellectual virtue and examples from the sciences,
Holt shows why impersonal standards for rationality are misguided,
why foundations for knowledge are the last elements to emerge from
inquiry not the first, and why intuition is a poor substitute for
virtue. By placing the current scene in historical perspective,
Holt displays the current impasse as the inevitable outcome of the
replacement of intellectual virtue with method in the early modern
philosophical imagination. Written in an engaging and jargon-free
style, this book is of interest to a wide range of readers,
particularly epistemologists and philosophers of science concerned
with the fate of reason.
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