Kant on Free Will and Theoretical Rationality

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment

kant on the rationality of moral judgment

the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...

Kant , Kuhn , and the Rationality of Science

†Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Goodbody Hall 130, Indiana University, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405–7005; e-mail: [email protected]. *This paper first appeared in Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (eds.) History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002) Kluwer Academic ...

On Detail-Free Mechanism Design and Rationality

The study of mechanism design is sometimes criticized, because the designed mechanisms depend on the fine detail of the model specification, and agents’ behavior relies on the strong common knowledge assumptions on their rationality and others. Hence, the study of ‘detail-free’ mechanism design with weak informational assumptions is the most important to make as the first step towards a practic...

A study of Determinism and Free-will in Persian Proverbs

Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...