The realm of reason / Christopher Peacocke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacocke, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Realm of Reason develops a new, general theory of what it is for a thinker to be entitled to form a given belief. The theory locates entitlement in the nexus of relations between truth, content, and understanding. Peacocke formulates three principles of rationalism that articulate this conception. The principles imply that all entitlement has a component that is justificationally independent of experience. The resulting position is thus a form of rationalism,generalized to all kinds of content.To show how these principles are realized in specific domains, Peacocke applies the theory in det

Contents:

Introduction: Reasons and Sense; 1 Entitlement,Truth, and Content; 2 States, Contents, and the Source of Entitlement; 3 Explaining Perceptual Entitlement; 4 Extensions and Consequences; 5 Induction; 6 A Priori Entitlement; 7 Moral Rationalism; 8 Moral Rationalism, Realism, and the Emotions; 9. Conclusion; Appendix: List of Main Principles and Definitions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-277) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-927073-2

1-281-92518-7

9786611925185

0-19-153374-2

OCLC:

302391716