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The Value of Rationality (Paperback)
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The Value of Rationality (Paperback)
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Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of
rationality. The Value of Rationality is designed as the first
instalment of a trilogy - to be followed by accounts of the
requirements of rationality that apply specifically to beliefs and
choices. The central claim of the book is that rationality is a
normative concept. This claim is defended against some recent
objections. Normative concepts are to be explained in terms of
values (not in terms of 'ought' or reasons). Rationality is itself
a value: rational thinking is in a certain way better than
irrational thinking. Specifically, rationality is an internalist
concept: what it is rational for you to think now depends solely on
what is now present in your mind. Nonetheless, rationality has an
external goal - the goal of thinking correctly, or getting things
right in one's thinking. The connection between thinking rationally
and thinking correctly is probabilistic: if your thinking is
irrational, that is in effect bad news about your thinking's degree
of correctness. This account of rationality explains how we should
set about giving a theory of what it is for beliefs and choices to
be rational. Wedgwood thus unifies practical and theoretical
rationality, and reveals the connections between formal accounts of
rationality (such as those of formal epistemologists and decision
theorists) and the more metaethics-inspired recent discussions of
the normativity of rationality. He does so partly by drawing on
recent work in the semantics of normative and modal terms
(including deontic modals like 'ought').
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