Practical Nihilism
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چکیده
Nihilism about practical reasoning is the thesis that there no such thing as rationality—as rationally figuring out what to do. While other philosophers have defended a theoretically oriented version of thesis, usually called “error theory”, case made for fully it: we are so bad at do not really know doing it right would much look like. In particular, our control instrumental (or means-end) rationality illusory, and almost entirely incompetent managing defeating conditions inferences—that is, knowing when draw an apparently acceptable conclusion. If right, then instead trying reason more successfully, should be make failure pay.
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2409-9287']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8010002