Edo Pivcevic

Man the Rational Animal (eBook, ePUB)

Questions and Arguments

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We share the capacity for knowledge with animals, but it is the nature and the scope of what we may rationally believe that makes us human. Yet what kind of beliefs do qualify as 'rational'? This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning rational legitimacy of some widely held beliefs and provides argument-based answers to such questions, while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage with the views put forward and form his/her own judgement. The book is typically discursive rather than simply informative, and introduces philosophy by doing it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761867937
• Artikelnr.: 45221303

Autorenporträt

Edo Pivcevic

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory Note
Introduction
1. What Can We Know and What May We Rationally Believe?
2. What Are the Necessary and What Are the Sufficient Conditions of
Rational Belief?
3. Can It Ever Be Truly Rational to Believe a Falsehood?
4. Does Natural Science Set a Norm for What Can Be Rationally Believed?
5. Is the Belief in Creation Ex Nihilo a Rationally Sustainable Belief?
6. What Rational Justification Might There Be for Acting Morally?
7. Is the Existence of Rational Beings Merely a Fortuitous By-Product of
Natural Selection?
Index