Wide or Narrow Scope?

Author: Broome, John

Source: Mind, Volume 116, Number 462, April 2007 , pp. 359-370(12)

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Abstract:

This paper is a response to `Why Be Rational?' by Niko Kolodny. Kolodny argues that we have no reason to satisfy the requirements of rationality. His argument assumes that these requirements have a logically narrow scope. To see what the question of scope turns on, this comment provides a semantics for `requirement'. It shows that requirements of rationality have a wide scope, at least under one sense of `requirement'. Consequently Kolodny's conclusion cannot be derived.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzm359

Publication date: 2007-04-01

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