The Rationality Project
Across the Millennia
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Further Considerations of the Most Explanatory Theory of Rationality*: Does It Do Justice to Rationality and Humanity?
This chapter contends that the best theory of rationality (qualified in the text by an asterisk “*,” which is to be dropped) is that with the greatest explanatory power EP as stipulated herein. It can be consi...
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[Rationality vs. Authority] Versus [Rationality + Authority]
The list of precepts for rationality runs up against Chap. 6’s paradox that is nonetheless central to the essay. It seems that rational agents seek both independence of ...
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Extensive Example and Closing Remarks
This final chapter attempts to tie morality with rationality—although they appear to insist of independence from one another. Common between them is normativity. The essay has contended that rationality is pri...
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What Kind of Approach This Study Takes and What It Does Not
We may believe we have a good intuition about what “rationality” is. It has something to do with reasoning. Employing it in daily use is reputed to help improve our lives. It is not tied to a religion, althoug...
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Tidying the Rational* Home
Rationality, once this chapter has laid it out into at least 21 complete and substantial senses, now appears overburdened, cumbersome, even messy, and hardly attractive for empirical analysis. It seems, then, ...
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Rationality Personal and Social
Being rational in complete social isolation seems veritably useless. One may remain credible religious if stuck for life on an otherwise uninhabited island. But rationality seems to concern how one behaves in ...
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Positioning the Argument: Goals, Terminologies, Assumptions, Directions
Rationality is set among two different, broad kinds of concepts: One is rationality in the contexts of related, although not etymological related, cases. These include reasoning, assessing probability, intelli...
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The Ontology of Rationality
Now we stand at the starting line for inquiry into just what kind of a “thing” is rationality, if it is a “thing,” whether there can be an optimal such thing, and how to determine whether one such thing can be...
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Rationality’s Precepts and Cognates (Irrational, Nonrational, Arational, etc.)
Now that we have established a viable, workable explanation of what rationality consists in, we can consider some of the related precepts and cognate notions within the proposal. To recap: The theory to the be...
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Why Rationality? The Growth and Normativity of Rationality
Rationality is not merely an objective science but is a normative project. It seeks to make changes in people and society. But it has undergone steady abuse over the millennia, with reviling detractors and see...
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The Moral Philosophy of Automobiles
The ethics of technology use has tended to arise from the theory of the role of technology in human life and society and thus introduces a bias into moral assessment of such use. I propose a dialectical method...
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Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement by Nicholas Agar
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Bernard E. Rollin: Putting the Horse Before Descartes: My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals
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Kevin Dolan. Ethics, Animals and Science
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Mike Appleby. What Should We Do About Animal Welfare?
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Bernard Rollin, An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics: Theory and Cases. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1999, 417 pp. Index. Paperback: $39.95.
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Filling the Gaps in the Risks vs. Benefits of Mammalian Adult-Cell Cloning: Taking Bernard Rollin's Philosophy Its Next Step
A critique is made of Bernard Rollin's examination of the ethics of cloning adult mammalian cells. The primary concern is less to propound an anticloning or procloning position than to call for full exploratio...
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U.S. lags in nutriceutical development
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Location and Design: Two Sides of a Coin
