Working Without a Net

Working Without a Net A Study of Egocentric Epistemology

Hardback (18 Mar 1993)

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In this book Foley offers a major new theory of rationality. His aim is to escape the `doldrums of Descartes' by lowering the standard for what is rational from his impossibly demanding level of certainty. Foley takes a belief's being rational as a matter of its seeming from some perspective to be objectively likely to be true. This makes for an attractive mix of subjective and objective components in his concept of rationality. The subjective component makes rationality attainable; the objective component preserves the discipline of external constraint.

Book information

ISBN: 9780195076998
Publisher: OUP USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 121
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 214
Weight: 523g
Height: 243mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 23mm