Facets of Rationality
1st Edition
Published on 20. June 1995
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-0-8039-9225-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume reasserts the primacy of rationality over cultural relativism, pluralism, hermeneutics and postmodernism. The first part of the book contains essays on rationality, social choice and moral theory, while the second part explores concepts of rationality in the social sciences. The final parts examine rationality, theory construction and science, and rationality, language and logic.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-9225-2 (9780803992252)
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Persons
Parthasarathi Banerjee has been involved in research on business policy, innovation, and science and technology policy and related areas for the last two and a half decades, and has been working with National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), New Delhi, where he is currently the Director. He has published eight books and several journal/book papers; his latest book was on biomedical innovation.
Content
PART ONE: RATIONALITY, SOCIAL CHOICE AND MORAL THEORY
Preface - Panthasarathi Bannerjee
Belief-Attribution and Rationality - Pierre Jacob
A Dilemma for Jerry Fodor
Action Sentence and Action for Welfare - Parathasarathi Banerjee
What 'Rational' Could Mean in the Human Sciences - Allan Gibbard
Meanings and Rationalities in Social Choice Theory - Serge-Christophe Kolm
The Coherence of Rights - Satish K Jain
PART TWO: RATIONALITY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Preface - Oliver Guillaume
The Project of Rationality and the Discipline of Social Sciences - A Raghuramaraju
Cognitive Effects of the Computational Paradigm in the Human Sciences - Jean-Claude Gardin
Emergent Rationality through Jurisprudence - Laurent Bochereau, Dani[gr]ele Bourcier and Paul Bourgine
The Remainder World - Wagish Shukla
PART THREE: RATIONALITY, THEORY CONSTRUCTION AND SCIENCE
Preface - Mahasweta Chaudury
Objectivism and Social Determination - Mahasweta Chaudhury
A Plea of a Rationalist
Changing Concepts of 'Rationality' in Science - T K Sarkar
'Identity' and 'Property' in Vagueness - M K Chakraborty and Mohua Banerjee
Rationality of Mathematical Constructions - S M Bhave
PART FOUR: RATIONALITY, LANGUAGE AND LOGIC
Preface - Daniel Andler
Language and Cognition - V N Jha
An Ancient Indian Perspective
Grammar as a Means of Knowing Denotative Function - John Vattanky
Reference and Interpretation - Kalyan S Basu
The Paradox of the First Person - Fran[cd]cois Recanati
Executable Justificational Rationality and Naturalized Epistemology - Amitabha Gupta and Nilesh Sutaria
Logic and Rationality in an Artificial Intelligence Perspective - Daniel Kayser
Characterising Coherence in Multimodel Discourse - S Bandyopadhyay
Preface - Panthasarathi Bannerjee
Belief-Attribution and Rationality - Pierre Jacob
A Dilemma for Jerry Fodor
Action Sentence and Action for Welfare - Parathasarathi Banerjee
What 'Rational' Could Mean in the Human Sciences - Allan Gibbard
Meanings and Rationalities in Social Choice Theory - Serge-Christophe Kolm
The Coherence of Rights - Satish K Jain
PART TWO: RATIONALITY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Preface - Oliver Guillaume
The Project of Rationality and the Discipline of Social Sciences - A Raghuramaraju
Cognitive Effects of the Computational Paradigm in the Human Sciences - Jean-Claude Gardin
Emergent Rationality through Jurisprudence - Laurent Bochereau, Dani[gr]ele Bourcier and Paul Bourgine
The Remainder World - Wagish Shukla
PART THREE: RATIONALITY, THEORY CONSTRUCTION AND SCIENCE
Preface - Mahasweta Chaudury
Objectivism and Social Determination - Mahasweta Chaudhury
A Plea of a Rationalist
Changing Concepts of 'Rationality' in Science - T K Sarkar
'Identity' and 'Property' in Vagueness - M K Chakraborty and Mohua Banerjee
Rationality of Mathematical Constructions - S M Bhave
PART FOUR: RATIONALITY, LANGUAGE AND LOGIC
Preface - Daniel Andler
Language and Cognition - V N Jha
An Ancient Indian Perspective
Grammar as a Means of Knowing Denotative Function - John Vattanky
Reference and Interpretation - Kalyan S Basu
The Paradox of the First Person - Fran[cd]cois Recanati
Executable Justificational Rationality and Naturalized Epistemology - Amitabha Gupta and Nilesh Sutaria
Logic and Rationality in an Artificial Intelligence Perspective - Daniel Kayser
Characterising Coherence in Multimodel Discourse - S Bandyopadhyay