new paper

[Phil Roberts, Jr.]

Hot off the press, kids, my latest and greatest. :)

Being Rational

Abstract: Based on a simple premise and relying on
the metaphor of vision, I offer an alternative to the
“standard picture” of rationality in which ‘being rational’
is construed as simply a matter of conforming to established
rules of inference. In addition to offering a means of
visualizing a number of features commonly associated with
rationality including correspondence, coherence, logic,
incompleteness, justification and irrationality, I also
explain how my alternative to the “standard picture” can
provide solutions to the Gettier problem, the “rationality
debate” (Stein) and “the central theoretical problem of
sociobiology” (Wilson).

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