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Stance and rationality: a perspective

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We offer an overview of some ways of examining the connections between stance and rationality, by surveying recent work on four central topics: (a) the very idea of a stance, (b) the relations between stances and voluntarism, (c) the metaphysics and epistemology that emerge once stances are brought to center stage, and (d) the role that emotions and phenomenology play in the empirical stance.

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 10 Merton Street, Oxford, OX1 4JJ, UK

    Darrell P. Rowbottom

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33124-4670, USA

    Otávio Bueno

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Rowbottom, D.P., Bueno, O. Stance and rationality: a perspective. Synthese 178, 1–5 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9526-8

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