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The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

Author : Ch. Perelman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400994826
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The New Rhetoric and the Humanities written by Ch. Perelman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern logic has Wldergone some remarkable developments in the last hun dred years. These have contributed to the extraordinary use of formal logic which has become essentially the concern of mathematicians. This has led to attempts to identify logic with formal logic. The claim has even been made that all non-formal reasoning, to the extent that it cannot be formalized, no longer belongs to logic. This conception leads to a genuine impoverishment of logic as well as to a narrow conception of reason. It means that as soon as demonstrative proofs are no longer available reason will no longer dominate. Even the idea of the 'reasonable' becomes foreign to logic and such expres sions as 'reasonable decisions', 'reasonable choice' or 'reasonable hypotheses' would be put aside as meaningless. The domain of action, including method ology and everything that is given over to deliberation or controversy - i.e., foreign to formal logic - would become a battleground where necessarily the reason of the strongest would always prevail.

The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon

Author : Jon Mandle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316193985
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon written by Jon Mandle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.

Stop Being Reasonable

Author : Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541730437
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Stop Being Reasonable written by Eleanor Gordon-Smith and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible. In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-Smith weaves a narrative that illustrates the limits of human reason. Here, she tells the stories of people who have radically altered their beliefs--from the woman who had to reckon with her husband's terrible secret to the man who finally left the cult he had been raised in since birth. Gordon-Smith shows how we can change the course of our own lives, and asks: what made someone change course? How should their reversals affect how we think about our own beliefs? And in an increasingly divided world, what do they teach us about how we might change the minds of others? Inspiring, perceptive, and moving, Stop Being Reasonable explores why resistance to evidence is often rooted in self-preservation and fear, why we feel shame in admitting we are wrong, and why who we believe is often more important than what we believe. This fascinating book will completely change the way you look at the power of persuasion.

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Author : Kieron O'Connor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470868783
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Reasonable Doubt written by Kieron O'Connor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as an anxiety disorder, but there is increasing evidence that it has schizotypal features ? in other words it is a belief disorder. This book describes the ways in which reasoning can be applied to OCD for effective treatment regimes. It moves comprehensively through theoretical, experimental, clinical and treatment aspects of reasoning research, and contains a detailed treatment manual of great value to practitioners, including assessment and treatment protocols and case studies

A Rational Theology, as Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Author : John Andreas Widtsoe
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146556263X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book A Rational Theology, as Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints written by John Andreas Widtsoe and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1937-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aristotle's Legal Theory

Author : George Duke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110715703X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Legal Theory written by George Duke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a systematic exposition of Aristotle's legal thought and account of the relationship between law and politics.

Reasonably Vicious

Author : Candace VOGLER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044703
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Reasonably Vicious written by Candace VOGLER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is unethical conduct necessarily irrational? Answering this question requires giving an account of practical reason, of practical good, and of the source or point of wrongdoing. By the time most contemporary philosophers have done the first two, they have lost sight of the third, chalking up bad action to rashness, weakness of will, or ignorance. In this book, Candace Vogler does all three, taking as her guides scholars who contemplated why some people perform evil deeds. In doing so, she sets out to at once engage and redirect contemporary debates about ethics, practical reason, and normativity. Staged as a limited defense of a standard view of practical reason (an ancestor of contemporary instrumentalist views), Vogler's essay develops Aquinas's remark about three ways an action might be desirable into an exhaustive system for categorizing reasons for acting. Drawing on Elizabeth Anscombe's pioneering work on intention, Vogler argues that one sort (means/end or calculative reasons for acting) sets the terms for all sound work on practical rationality. She takes up Aquinas's work on evil throughout, arguing that he provides us with a systematic theory of immorality that takes seriously the goods at issue in wrongdoing and the reasons for unethical conduct. Vogler argues that, shorn of its theological context, this theory leaves us with no systematic, uncontroversial way of arguing that wrongdoing is necessarily contrary to reason.

Rational Faith

Author : Stephen T Davis
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745980074
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Rational Faith written by Stephen T Davis and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God exists, why doesn't he eliminate suffering and evil? Does evolution disprove Christianity? Can religion be explained by cognitive science? People have grappled for ages with these kinds of questions. And many in today's academic world find Christian belief untenable. But renowned philosopher Stephen Davis argues that belief in God is indeed a rational and intellectually sound endeavor. Drawing on a lifetime of rigorous reflection and critical thinking, he explores perennial and contemporary challenges to Christian faith. Davis appraises objections fairly and openly, offering thoughtful approaches to common intellectual problems. Real questions warrant reasonable responses. Examine for yourself the rationality of the Christian faith.

On Law and Reason

Author : Aleksander Peczenik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402083815
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book On Law and Reason written by Aleksander Peczenik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-12 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.’ These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law which emphasises the role of reason in the law and which refuses to limit the role of reason to the application of deductive logic. In 1989, when the first edition of On Law and Reason appeared, this book was ground breaking for several reasons. It provided a rationalistic theory of the law in the language of analytic philosophy and based on a thorough understanding of the results, including technical ones, of analytic philosophy. That was not an obvious combination at the time of the book’s first appearance and still is not. The result is an analytical rigor that is usually associated with positivist theories of the law, combined with a philosophical position that is not natural law in a strict sense, but which shares with it the emphasis on the role of reason in determining what the law is. If only for this rare combination, On Law and Reason still deserves careful study. On Law and Reason also foreshadowed and influenced a development in the field of Legal Logic that would take place in the nineties of the 20th century, namely the development of non-monotonic (‘defeasible’) logics for the analysis of legal reasoning. In the new Introduction to this second edition, this aspect is explored in some more detail.

The Rational Bible: Exodus

Author : Dennis Prager
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621577996
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Rational Bible: Exodus written by Dennis Prager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller! Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today’s issues, but completely consistent with rational thought. Do you think the Bible permitted the trans-Atlantic slave trade? You won’t after reading this book. Do you struggle to love your parents? If you do, you need this book. Do you doubt the existence of God because belief in God is “irrational?” This book will give you reason after reason to rethink your doubts. The title of this commentary is, “The Rational Bible” because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. As Prager says, “If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job.” The Rational Bible is the fruit of Dennis Prager’s forty years of teaching the Bible to people of every faith, and no faith. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world and to your life. His goal: to change your mind – and then change your life.

Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism

Author : Jody David Armour
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814706703
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism written by Jody David Armour and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.

Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law

Author : Aulis Aarnio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400716559
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law written by Aulis Aarnio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law is a summary of the author’s 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal study of law: the interpretation and systematisation of legal norms. In this regard, Professor Aarnio deals with the theory of argumentation as well as with its foundations - i.e., with the ontology, epistemology and methodology of legal thinking - and develops the ideas that were first presented in The Rational as Reasonable (Kluwer 1987) in all of these dimensions. The work includes an updated discussion on the writings of Robert Alexy, Jûrgen Habermas, Ronald Dworkin and Alf Ross. A focal point of view concerns the distinction between positivism and non-positivism, in which the core of the criticism focuses on Scandinavian realism.

The Law of Peoples

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674005426
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Peoples written by John Rawls and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work consists of two parts: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited and The Law of Peoples. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some pressing problems of our times.

Rationality

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241380308
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Rationality written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read Rationality instead. It's cheaper, more entertaining, and more effective' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing? In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty. These tools are not a standard part of our educational curricula, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book - until now. Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. Brimming with insight and humour, Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower. 'A terrific book, much-needed for our time' Peter Singer

Actions, Norms, Values

Author : Georg Meggle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110802457
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Actions, Norms, Values written by Georg Meggle and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reasoning Voter

Author : Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677287X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Reasoning Voter written by Samuel L. Popkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns—Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984—to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and sound bites to choose a candidate. Drawing on insights from economics and cognitive psychology, he convincingly demonstrates that, as trivial as campaigns often appear, they provide voters with a surprising amount of information on a candidate's views and skills. For all their shortcomings, campaigns do matter. "Professor Popkin has brought V.O. Key's contention that voters are rational into the media age. This book is a useful rebuttal to the cynical view that politics is a wholly contrived business, in which unscrupulous operatives manipulate the emotions of distrustful but gullible citizens. The reality, he shows, is both more complex and more hopeful than that."—David S. Broder, The Washington Post

Heterogeneous Agent Systems

Author : V. S. Subrahmanian
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262194365
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Heterogeneous Agent Systems written by V. S. Subrahmanian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a discussion of the theory of software agents, this book presents IMPACT (Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together), an experimental agent infrastructure that translates formal theories of agency into a functional multiagent system that can extend legacy software code and application-specific or legacy data structures.