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Rationality as a Virtue
Author(s) -
Wedgwood Ralph
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
analytic philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2153-960X
pISSN - 2153-9596
DOI - 10.1111/phib.12055
Subject(s) - rationality , virtue , citation , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , sociology , library science
There seems to be a concept, which can be expressed in philosophical English by the term ‘rationality’, that plays a particularly central role both in epistemology and in ethics. This concept seems especially prominent in the more formal branches of epistemology and decision theory, since it seems to be a central topic for those branches of philosophy to investigate when beliefs and decisions – and events in which we revise or adjust our beliefs and intentions – count as rational. But it is not completely obvious what sort of concept the term ‘rational’ expresses in these contexts.