Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality

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Alex Worsnip (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Fitting Things Together

Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality

Alex Worsnip (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Oxford University Press Inc
16 June 2022

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind; Ethics & moral philosophy; Philosophy of mathematics

"Some combinations of attitudes--of beliefs, credences, intentions, preferences, hopes, fears, and so on--do not fit together right: they are incoherent. A natural idea is that there are requirements of ""structural rationality"" that forbid us from being in these incoherent states. Yet a number of surprisingly difficult challenges arise for this idea. These challenges have recently led many philosophers to attempt to minimize or eliminate structural rationality, arguing that it is just a ""shadow"" of ""substantive rationality""--that is, correctly responding to one's reasons.

In Fitting Things Together, Alex Worsnip pushes back against this trend--defending the view that structural rationality is a genuine kind of rationality, distinct from and irreducible to substantive rationality, and tackling the most important challenges for this view. In so doing, he gives an original positive theory of the nature of coherence and structural rationality that explains how the diverse range of instances of incoherence can be unified under a general account, and how facts about coherence are normatively significant. He also shows how a failure to focus on coherence requirements as a distinctive phenomenon and distinguish them adequately from requirements of substantive rationality has led to confusion and mistakes in several substantive debates in epistemology and ethics. Taken as a whole, Fitting Things Together provides the first sustained defense of the view that structural rationality is a genuine, autonomous, unified, and normatively significant phenomenon."

By: Alex Worsnip (Associate Professor of Philosophy Associate Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 164mm, Width: 239mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197608142
ISBN 10: 0197608140
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 16 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alex Worsnip is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in epistemology, ethics, and the theory of rationality. He is the author of over twenty articles in leading philosophy journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Ethics, and Noûs.