Nature of Rationality
Repeatedly And Successfully, The Celebrated Harvard Philosopher Robert Nozick Has Reached Out To A Broad Audience Beyond The Confines Of His Discipline, Addressing Ethical And Social Problems That Matter To Every Thoughtful Person. Here Nozick Continues His Search For The Connections Between Philosophy And Ordinary Experience. In The Lively And Accessible Style That His Readers Have Come To Expect, He Offers A Bold Theory Of Rationality, The One Characteristic Deemed To Fix Humanity's Specialness. What Are Principles For? Asks Nozick. We Could Act Simply On Whim, Or Maximize Our Self-interest And Recommend That Others Do The Same. As Nozick Explores Rationality Of Decision And Rationality Of Belief, He Shows How Principles Actually Function In Our Day-to-day Thinking And In Our Efforts To Live Peacefully And Productively With Each Other. Throughout, The Book Combines Daring Speculations With Detailed Investigations To Portray The Nature And Status Of Rationality And The Essential Role That Imagination Plays In This Singular Human Aptitude. Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. How To Do Things With Principles -- Ii. Decision-value -- Iii. Rational Belief -- Iv. Evolutionary Reasons -- V. Instrumental Rationality And Its Limits -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Index Of Names Robert Nozick. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [183]-217) And Indexes. Issued Also In Print. English
Rationalism
RELEASED1994
PUBLISHERPrinceton University Press
LENGTH226
LANGUAGEEN
Robert Nozick (/ˈnoʊzɪk/; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University,[3] and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his books Philosophical Explanations (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge, and Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick also presented his own theory of utopia as one in which people can freely choose the rules of the society they enter into. His other work involved ethics, decision theory, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His final work before his death, Invariances (2001), introduced his theory of evolutionary cosmology, by which he argues invariances, and hence objectivity itself, emerged through evolution across possible worlds.
Nature of Rationality
Repeatedly And Successfully, The Celebrated Harvard Philosopher Robert Nozick Has Reached Out To A Broad Audience Beyond The Confines Of His Discipline, Addressing Ethical And Social Problems That Matter To Every Thoughtful Person. Here Nozick Continues His Search For The Connections Between Philosophy And Ordinary Experience. In The Lively And Accessible Style That His Readers Have Come To Expect, He Offers A Bold Theory Of Rationality, The One Characteristic Deemed To Fix Humanity's Specialness. What Are Principles For? Asks Nozick. We Could Act Simply On Whim, Or Maximize Our Self-interest And Recommend That Others Do The Same. As Nozick Explores Rationality Of Decision And Rationality Of Belief, He Shows How Principles Actually Function In Our Day-to-day Thinking And In Our Efforts To Live Peacefully And Productively With Each Other. Throughout, The Book Combines Daring Speculations With Detailed Investigations To Portray The Nature And Status Of Rationality And The Essential Role That Imagination Plays In This Singular Human Aptitude. Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. How To Do Things With Principles -- Ii. Decision-value -- Iii. Rational Belief -- Iv. Evolutionary Reasons -- V. Instrumental Rationality And Its Limits -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Index Of Names Robert Nozick. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [183]-217) And Indexes. Issued Also In Print. English
Rationalism
RELEASED1994
PUBLISHERPrinceton University Press
LENGTH226
LANGUAGEEN
Robert Nozick (/ˈnoʊzɪk/; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University,[3] and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his books Philosophical Explanations (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge, and Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick also presented his own theory of utopia as one in which people can freely choose the rules of the society they enter into. His other work involved ethics, decision theory, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His final work before his death, Invariances (2001), introduced his theory of evolutionary cosmology, by which he argues invariances, and hence objectivity itself, emerged through evolution across possible worlds.
