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Fitting Things Together

Alex Worsnip
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      Some combinations of attitudes—of 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 a number of surprisingly difficult challenges arise for this idea. These challenges have recently led many philosophers to attempt 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—defending the view that structural rationality is a genuine kind of rationality, distinct from and irreducible to substantive rationality, and tackling the most important challenges for this view. In so doing, he gives an original positive theory of the nature of coherence and structural rationality that explains how the diverse range of instances of incoherence can be unified under a general account, and howfacts about coherence are normatively significant. He also shows how a failure to focus on coherence requirements as a distinctive phenomenon and distinguish them adequately from requirements of substantive rationality has led to confusion and mistakes in several substantive debates in epistemology and ethics. Taken as a whole, Fitting Things Together provides the first sustained defense of the view that structural rationality is a genuine, autonomous, unified, and normatively significant phenomenon.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alex Worsnip EAN: 9780197608142 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 656 g HEIGHT: 244 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-24 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body WIDTH: 165 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Philosophy of mind, Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Alex Worsnip is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in epistemology, ethics, and the theory of rationality. He is the author of over twenty articles in leading philosophy journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Ethics, and Noûs.
      Some combinations of attitudes—of 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 a number of surprisingly difficult challenges arise for this idea. These challenges have recently led many philosophers to attempt 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—defending the view that structural rationality is a genuine kind of rationality, distinct from and irreducible to substantive rationality, and tackling the most important challenges for this view. In so doing, he gives an original positive theory of the nature of coherence and structural rationality that explains how the diverse range of instances of incoherence can be unified under a general account, and howfacts about coherence are normatively significant. He also shows how a failure to focus on coherence requirements as a distinctive phenomenon and distinguish them adequately from requirements of substantive rationality has led to confusion and mistakes in several substantive debates in epistemology and ethics. Taken as a whole, Fitting Things Together provides the first sustained defense of the view that structural rationality is a genuine, autonomous, unified, and normatively significant phenomenon.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alex Worsnip EAN: 9780197608142 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 656 g HEIGHT: 244 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-24 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body WIDTH: 165 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Philosophy of mind, Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Alex Worsnip is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in epistemology, ethics, and the theory of rationality. He is the author of over twenty articles in leading philosophy journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Ethics, and Noûs.

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