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Rationality
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 283–292 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Rationality as a Property and Rationality as a Source of Requirements Rationality and Normativity Requirements of Rationality Reasoning References Further reading.Author's Profile
action in special contexts rationality as a property, and rationality as a source of requirements ‘rationality’ referring to a property ‐ property of being rational “Beauty requires hard work” ‐ necessary condition for possessing property of beauty “Rationality requires you to F” ‐ meaning that your F‐ing is a necessary condition for you to be rational requirements of rationality in the source sense ‐ cannot be defined in terms of the property of rationality requirements in the property sense ‐ not necessarily requirements in source sense rationality and normativity ‐ relation between rationality and normativity David Hume's remark, “Tis not contrary to reason to prefer destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger” activity of reasoning ‐ playing in our rationality
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