Fitting things together : coherence and the demands of structural rationality / Alex Worsnip.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worsnip, Alexander, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Practical reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Some combinations of attitudes--beliefs, credences, intentions, preferences, hopes, fears, and so on--do not fit together right: they are incoherent. A natural idea is that there are requirements of "structural rationality" that forbid us from being in these incoherent states. Yet many philosophers have recently attempted to minimize or eliminate structural rationality, arguing that it is just a "shadow" of "substantive rationality"--that is, correctly responding to one's reasons. In Fitting Things Together, Alex Worsnip pushes back against this trend, providing the first sustained defense of the view that structural rationality is a genuine, autonomous, unified, and normatively significant phenomenon.

Contents:

Cover

Fitting Things Together

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Getting Structural (Ir)rationality into View

2. A Rough Account of Substantive Rationality

3. Eliminations and Reductions I

4. Eliminations and Reductions II

5. Unifying the Instances of Incoherence

6. Requirements of Structural Rationality

7. Talk About Structural Rationality

8. The Normativity of Structural Rationality

9. Upshots for Other Debates

Coda: The Tyranny of Value

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-760816-7

0-19-760817-5

0-19-760815-9

OCLC:

1257403836