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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

[general capacity for reason and logic]

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Aristotle gives a superior account of rationality, because he allows emotions to participate [Hursthouse on Aristotle]
The rational part of the soul is the desire for truth, understanding and recollection [Galen]
All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie]
Kantian 'intuition' is the bridge between pure reason and its application to sense experiences [Kant, by Friend]
When absorbed in deep reflection, is your reason in control, or is it you? [Feuerbach]
Reasoning involves observation, experiment, and habituation [Peirce]
Most of our intellectual activity is unconscious [Nietzsche]
Rationality is a scheme we cannot cast away [Nietzsche]
How can the ground of rationality be itself rational? [James]
It is rational to believe in reality, despite the lack of demonstrative reasons for it [Russell]
Absence of all rationality would be absence of thought [Davidson]
Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman]
In the instrumental view of rationality it only concerns means, and not ends [Nozick]
Rationality is normally said to concern either giving reasons, or reliability [Nozick]
Is it rational to believe a truth which leads to permanent misery? [Nozick]
Rationality needs some self-consciousness, to also evaluate how we acquired our reasons [Nozick]
Rationality has mental properties - autonomy, productivity, experiment [Fodor]
Only rational beings are attentive without motive or concern [Scruton]
Capturing all the common sense facts about rationality is almost impossible [Smith,M]
Stich accepts eliminativism (labelled 'pragmatism') about rationality and normativity [Stich, by Engel]
Consistency is the cornerstone of rationality [Baggini /Fosl]
Hegelian holistic rationality is the capacity to seek coherence [Hanna]
Humean Instrumental rationality is the capacity to seek contingent truths [Hanna]
Kantian principled rationality is recognition of a priori universal truths [Hanna]
Rational animals have a normative concept of necessity [Hanna]
One tradition says talking is the essence of rationality; the other says the essence is logic [Hanna]
Rationality is conformity to reasons that can be sustained even after scrutiny [Sen]
No one has yet devised a rationality test [New Sci.]