Rationality: Contexts and Constraints is an interdisciplinary reappraisal of the nature of rationality. In method, it is pluralistic, drawing upon the analytic approaches of philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and more. These methods guide exploration of the intersection between traditional scholarship and cutting-edge philosophical or scientific research. In this way, the book contributes to development of a suitably revised, comprehensive understanding of rationality, one that befits the 21st century, one that is adequately informed by recent investigations of science, pathology, non-human thought, emotion, and even enigmatic Chinese texts that might previously have seemed to be expressions of irrationalism.
1. I: Introduction - p. xiv 2. Introduction - p. xiv 3. Chapter 1: Rationality and its Contexts - p. 1 4. II: Science - p. 13 5. Introduction - p. 13 6. Chapter 2: Bayesian Psychology and Human Rationality - p. 16 7. Chapter 3: Scientific Rationality: Phlogiston as a Case Study - p. 35 8. Chapter 4: Cross-Cultural Differences in Thinking: Some Thoughts on Psychological Paradigms - p. 59 9. III: Pathology - p. 73 10. Introduction - p. 73 11. Chapter 5: Delusion and the Norms of Rationality - p. 76 12. Chapter 6: Outline of a Theory of Delusion: Irrationality and Pathological Belief - p. 94 13. Chapter 7: Is Depressive Rumination Rational? - p. 119 14. IV: Irrationality - p. 145 15. Introduction - p. 145 16. Chapter 8: Reason and Unreason in Chinese Philosophy - p. 147 17. Chapter 9: Irrationally Intelligible or Rationally Unintelligible? - p. 172 18. Chapter 10: Does Classical Chinese Philosophy Reveal Alternative Rationalities? - p. 193 19. V: Nonhuman - p. 211 20. Introduction - p. 211 21. Chapter 11: Bridging the Logic-Based and Probability-Based Approaches to Artificial Intelligence - p. 213 22. Chapter 12: Rationality and Escherichia Coli - p. 225 23. VI: Communication and emotion - p. 240 24. Introduction - p. 240 25. Chapter 13: Rational Belief and Evidence-Based Update - p. 242 26. Chapter 14: Reason and Emotion in Xunzi’s Moral Psychology - p. 257 27. Index - p. 276
Rationality: Contexts and Constraints is an interdisciplinary reappraisal of the nature of rationality. In method, it is pluralistic, drawing upon the analytic approaches of philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and more. These methods guide exploration of the intersection between traditional scholarship and cutting-edge philosophical or scientific research. In this way, the book contributes to development of a suitably revised, comprehensive understanding of rationality, one that befits the 21st century, one that is adequately informed by recent investigations of science, pathology, non-human thought, emotion, and even enigmatic Chinese texts that might previously have seemed to be expressions of irrationalism.
1. I: Introduction - p. xiv 2. Introduction - p. xiv 3. Chapter 1: Rationality and its Contexts - p. 1 4. II: Science - p. 13 5. Introduction - p. 13 6. Chapter 2: Bayesian Psychology and Human Rationality - p. 16 7. Chapter 3: Scientific Rationality: Phlogiston as a Case Study - p. 35 8. Chapter 4: Cross-Cultural Differences in Thinking: Some Thoughts on Psychological Paradigms - p. 59 9. III: Pathology - p. 73 10. Introduction - p. 73 11. Chapter 5: Delusion and the Norms of Rationality - p. 76 12. Chapter 6: Outline of a Theory of Delusion: Irrationality and Pathological Belief - p. 94 13. Chapter 7: Is Depressive Rumination Rational? - p. 119 14. IV: Irrationality - p. 145 15. Introduction - p. 145 16. Chapter 8: Reason and Unreason in Chinese Philosophy - p. 147 17. Chapter 9: Irrationally Intelligible or Rationally Unintelligible? - p. 172 18. Chapter 10: Does Classical Chinese Philosophy Reveal Alternative Rationalities? - p. 193 19. V: Nonhuman - p. 211 20. Introduction - p. 211 21. Chapter 11: Bridging the Logic-Based and Probability-Based Approaches to Artificial Intelligence - p. 213 22. Chapter 12: Rationality and Escherichia Coli - p. 225 23. VI: Communication and emotion - p. 240 24. Introduction - p. 240 25. Chapter 13: Rational Belief and Evidence-Based Update - p. 242 26. Chapter 14: Reason and Emotion in Xunzi’s Moral Psychology - p. 257 27. Index - p. 276
