ARE THERE PROCESS-REQUIREMENTS OF RATIONALITY?

• Authors: Julian Fink
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Does a coherentist version of rationality issue requirements on states? Or does it issue requirements on processes? This paper evaluates the possibility of process-requirements. It argues that there are two possible definitions of state- and process-requirements: a satisfaction based definition and a content-based definition. The author demonstrates that the satisfaction-based definition is inappropriate. It does not allow us to uphold a clear-cut distinction between state- and process-requirements. We should therefore use a content-based definition of state- and process-requirements. However, a content-based definition entails that rationality does not issue process-requirements. Content-based process requirements violate the principle that ‘rationality requires’ implies ‘can satisfy’. The conclusion of this paper therefore amounts to a radical rejection of process-requirements of rationality.

Keywords

EN

RATIONALITY; PROCESS-REQUIREMENTS; STATE-REQUIREMENTS; SATISFACTION; CONTENT; COHERENTISM

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 475 – 487

Contributors

author

Julian Fink

• Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Ebendorferstrasse 10/13, 1010 Wien, Austria