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Rationality in question : on Eastern and Western views of rationality
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- Creator
- edited by Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1989
- Physical Details
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- xix, 256 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9004092129, 9789004092129
- OCLC
- ocm21340262
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : for a reasonable rationality / S. Biderman and B.-A. Scharfstein -- On the nature of rationality. Rationality and logic / J. Kekes -- Rationality in decision theory and in ethics / H. Putnam -- Modern myths concerning rationality : the imperatives of consistency and (constrained) maximality / R. Sylvan -- The rationality of asceticism / R.W. Perrett -- On the rationality of context, or, how rational attention to context leads to total, irrational relativity / B.-A. Scharfstein -- Comparative rationality. The rational and irrational in medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy / L.E. Goodman -- Confucius, Mencius, Hume and Kand on reason and choice / J.J. Kupperman -- Rationalism and anti-rationalism in pre-Buddhist China / A.C. Graham -- On the limits of empirical knowledge in Chinese and western science / N. Sivin -- Dharma and rationality / B.K. Matilal -- Indian philosophical tradition : the theory of PramÄna / J.N. Mohanty -- Thinking on empty : Madhyamaka anti-realism and canons of rationality / M. Siderits