Anti-individualism and rationality

Fregean Sense and Anti-Individualism

Rationality in Fundamentalist and Anti-Fundamentalist Phi-losophy

In this article, after reviewing the difference between fundamentalist and anti-fundamentalist philosophy, the features of the rationality will be explained from the perspective of five anti-fundamentalist philosophers (Habermas, Richard Rorty, MacIntyre, Michel Foucault and Hayek). The common point stated by all these philosophers is that they all criticize metaphysics and doubt about the basi...

Anti-Individualism, Content Preservation, and Discursive Justification

Most explorations of the epistemic implications of Semantic AntiIndividualism (SAI) focus on issues of self-knowledge (first-person authority) and/or external-world skepticism. Less explored has been SAI’s implications for the epistemology of reasoning. In this paper I argue that SAI has some nontrivial implications on this score. I bring these out by reflecting on a problem first raised by Bog...

Rationality Is Anti-entropic *

The article explores the fruitfulness of assuming all economic behavior to be non-rational unless special factors intervene to make it rational. The definition of rationality applied is that of intentional or calculative rationality.. This is deemed to be a variable, not a trait of a species. The association of rationality with three kinds of investment is indicated. Prior research on informati...

A False Dilemma for Anti-individualism

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