Weakening Habermas: the Undoing of Communicative Rationality

Communicative versus Strategic Rationality: Habermas Theory of Communicative Action and the Social Brain

In the philosophical theory of communicative action, rationality refers to interpersonal communication rather than to a knowing subject. Thus, a social view of rationality is suggested. The theory differentiates between two kinds of rationality, the emancipative communicative and the strategic or instrumental reasoning. Using experimental designs in an fMRI setting, recent studies explored simi...

Meaning Negotiation and Communicative Rationality

Settling disputes, even disputes about meaning, by third party arbitration is different from settling them by negotiation. Moreover, disputes can be settled by a procedure in which the disputing parties follow a protocol that prohibits them from simply following their original aims. They can collectively constitute an arbitrator. This provides an alternative model for resolving differences in m...

Communicative Rationality, Logic, and Mathematics

In this article the following thesis is explained and substantiared: Sense and meaning of mathematics finally lie in the fact that mathematics is able to support the rational communication of humans. The essence of the argumentation is that the effective support becomes possible by the close connection between mathematics and logic (in the sense of Peirce’s late philosophy) by which, in his tur...

ترجمه و نقد کتاب the justification of science and the rationality of religious belife

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Rationality Principles + Communicative Act Models