| Title: |
EUJAP’S SPECIAL ISSUE “THE BOUNDS OF RATIONALITY” EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION |
| Authors: |
Emiliano Loria; Valentina Petrolini |
| Contributors: |
Loria, Emiliano; Petrolini, Valentina |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale: CINECA IRIS |
| Subject Terms: |
rationality; mental disorder; psychopathology |
| Description: |
We thought it appropriate for a philosophical reflection on the concept of rationality and irrationality to start out with this excerpt from Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1882). The idea that error may be an intrinsic part of life—surely a Baconian echo—appears particularly useful to zoom in on all the difficulties that arise whenever we focus on the boundaries surrounding rationality. In our everyday experience of the world, as well as of ourselves and our minds, our capacity for rational judgment proves staggeringly unsuccessful in carving out a stable dominion for itself. We delude ourselves to be rational even when we employ apparently solid a posteriori arguments. Confabulation is part and parcel of our mental life: it comes in the form of the explanations that we provide to ourselves and others for actions or thoughts that we are unable to authentically understand (Hirstein 2009). |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
ELETTRONICO |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
volume:1; issue:16; firstpage:5; lastpage:12; numberofpages:8; journal:EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY; https://hdl.handle.net/11579/193822 |
| DOI: |
10.31820/ejap |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11579/193822; https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap; https://eujap.uniri.hr/introduction-to-the-special-issue-the-bounds-of-rationality/ |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.4BD4EC07 |
| Database: |
BASE |