Rationality reconsidered Ortega y Gasset and Wittgenstein on knowledge, belief, and practice / edited by Astrid Wagner and Jose Maria Ariso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, Astrid, editor.

Ariso, José María, editor.

Series:

Berlin studies in knowledge research ; Volume 9.

Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955.

Ortega y Gasset, José.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Phenomenology.

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume treats the topic of rationality developing a perspective that integrates elements of philosophy of language, phenomenology, pragmatism, and philosophy of life. The two reference authors, Wittgenstein and Ortega, are contemporaries but come from different philosophical traditions. Wittgenstein's early work was influenced by logical positivism. Later he developed an influential approach to philosophy of language. Ortega was influenced by Neo-Kantianism, perspectivism, life philosophy, and phenomenology. On this basis, he developed an independent approach that has become known as ratiovitalism. Astonishing affinities between their respective reflections on rationality motivated the experiment of bringing the different approaches into a synergetic relation. Both investigate the structures and limits of rationality, emphasize the importance of basic beliefs, and criticize the restriction of rationality concepts to the intellectual sphere. The contributions of the volume focus on: dynamics of belief and knowledge, implicit and explicit knowledge, the concept of “vital reason”, the role of world-pictures and forms of life, questions regarding certainty, ignorance, doubt, and madness, as well as matters of pluralism and relativism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

On Constraining Rationality and Revisiting the Logic of Beliefs: An Introduction

Rethinking Rationality: The Use of Signs and the Rationality of Interpretations

Rationality, Reason, and Wisdom

Rationality, Philosophy, and Common Sense

Pluralism and Soft Rationality in the Philosophy of Ortega and Wittgenstein

Moore and the King

Dynamics of Basic Beliefs in the Philosophical Approaches of Ortega and Wittgenstein

Are There Background Beliefs?

Belief and Perspective after Ortega and Wittgenstein

The Life and Logic of Our Beliefs

Knowledge and the “Favor of Nature”

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110454048

3110454041

9783110454413

3110454416

OCLC:

955136084