the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...

in this article, after reviewing the difference between fundamentalist and anti-fundamentalist philosophy, the features of the rationality will be explained from the perspective of five anti-fundamentalist philosophers (habermas, richard rorty, macintyre, michel foucault and hayek). the common point stated by all these philosophers is that they all criticize metaphysics and doubt about the basi...

Some arguments include imperative clauses. For example: ‘Buy me a drink; you can’t buy that drink unless go to the bar; so, bar!’ How should we build logic predicts which of these are good? Because imperatives aren’t truth apt and so don’t stand in relations preservation, this technical question gives rise foundational one: What would be subject matter logic? I argue declaratives used produce b...

Abstract Many theories of rational action are predicated on the idea that what it is to do in a given situation depends, part, believe situation. In short: they treat epistemic rationality as explanatorily prior practical rationality. If right doing so, follows, pain explanatory circularity, cannot itself be form Yet, many epistemologists have defended just such view According them, there no th...

RATIONALITY IS ESSENTIALLY connected with norms. In Western philosophy, while there has been much disagreement over what the norms of rationality are, there seems to have been substantial agreement that these norms are narrowly prescriptive; in fact there is a pronounced tendency to see rationality as leaving the agent no scope for choice in matters of thought, belief, inference and behaviour. ...

In “Practical Rationality at Work – A New Argumentation Model” (2018, pp.193-230) Sàágua and Baumtrog offer what they call “a new ideal model of integrated practical reasoning argumentation.” I will argue that their only really original contribution is a reconceptualization argumentation schemes as producing pro tanto reasons, such both wrong-headed in itself makes less than other models, not m...