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Title

Rationality in question : on Eastern and Western views of rationality / edited by Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein.

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biderman, Shlomo.
• Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-2019

Description

xix, 256 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Philosophy and religion, 0169-8834 ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Philosophy and religion ; v. 1.

Subject

• Rationalism
• rationalism (philosophy)
• Philosophie
• Rationalität
• Vergleichende Philosophie
• Vernunft
• Östliche Philosophie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Rationaliteit
• Oosterse wereld
• Westerse wereld
• Rationalisme

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 Pramāna / J.N. Mohanty -- Thinking on empty : Madhyamaka anti-realism and canons of rationality / M. Siderits.

ISBN

• 9004092129
• 9789004092129

LCCN

90131468

OCLC

• ocm21340262
• 21340262
• SCSB-9480474

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library