Stance and rationality: a perspective
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چکیده
Weoffer an overviewof someways 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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Synthese
دوره 178 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011