Beings of Thought and Action: Epistemic and Practical Rationality

Author:   Andy Mueller (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108834377


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   08 July 2021
Format:   Hardback
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In this book, Andy Mueller examines the ways in which epistemic and practical rationality are intertwined. In the first part, he presents an overview of the contemporary debates about epistemic norms for practical reasoning, and defends the thesis that epistemic rationality can make one practically irrational. Mueller proposes a contextualist account of epistemic norms for practical reasoning and introduces novel epistemic norms pertaining to ends and hope. In the second part Mueller considers current approaches to pragmatic encroachment in epistemology, ultimately arguing in favor of a new principle-based argument for pragmatic encroachment. While the book defends tenets of the knowledge-first programme, one of its main conclusions is thoroughly pragmatist: in an important sense, the practical has primacy over the epistemic.

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Author:   Andy Mueller (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781108834377


ISBN 10:   110883437
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   08 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue; Part I. Beings of Thought in Action: 1. Epistemic encroachment on practical rationality; 2. Practical reasoning, ends, and the end of hope; 3. Contexts, costs, and benefits; 4. Knowledge and seemingly risky actions; Part II. Beings of Action in Thought: 5. Pragmatic encroachment in epistemology; 6. Reasons for belief and the primacy of the practical; 7. Assessing potential explanations of pragmatic encroachment; 8. Social beings; Epilogue.

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Andy Mueller is a post-doctoral fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt. He works on epistemology and practical reasoning and has published articles in journals including Analysis, Analytic Philosophy, Episteme, and Synthese.

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