Introduction
1: Epistemic Appraisal
2: The Egocentric Predicament and Normativity
3: Excusability
4: Rational Disagreement
5: Perspectivalism and Optionalism
6: From Schema to Theory: The Role of Autonomy in the Theory of
Rationality
7: Conclusion
A: Reducing Personal to Doxastic Justification
B: Reducing Doxastic to Propositional Justification
Index
Bibliography
Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at
Baylor University, having held previous faculty positions at the
University of Notre Dame, Texas A&M University, and the
University of Missouri. His scholarly activities focus in
metaphysics & epistemology and philosophy of religion, including
related topics in philosophy of language and philosophy of logic,
with thirteen books and over one hundred articles published. He is
the editor
of the prestigious Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. He
has received grants from the NEH and the Templeton Foundation for
scholarly activities, and is the recipient of distinguished
research awards from
Texas A&M and Baylor.
Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through
researchers/faculty.
*Choice*
Rationality and Reflection highlights some important -- and, to my
mind, entirely correct -- desiderata for a theory of rationality.
Kvanvig's theory offers an interesting way to accommodate those
desiderata, and provides a new setting in which current debates can
play out.
*Sophie Horowitz, Mind*
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