Edo Pivcevic

Man the Rational Animal

Questions and Arguments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9780761867920
• ISBN-10: 0761867929
• Artikelnr.: 44828734

Autorenporträt

The author has taught Philosophy for many years at the University of Bristol (UK), as well as periodically as a Visiting Professor in Germany, the United States and China. The author's previous books include Husserl and Phenomenology, The Concept of Reality, Change and Selves, What is truth? and The Reason Why.

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