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2The Reasosonableness of Reason: Explaining Rationality NaturalisticallyOpen Court. 1995.Does reliance on reason require an unreasonable faith in reason? In The Reasonableness of Reason, Professor Hauptli argues that naturalized epistemology enables us to explain the reasonableness of the rationalist commitment. Examining different forms of rationalism in turn, the author exposes their limitations. Traditional (justificatory) rationalists are indeed caught in a paradox, and those contemporary rationalists who simply affirm that we should be rational without attempting to argue fo…Read more
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1From Myth to Metaphor: A Study of W. V. Quine's Epistemological RealismDissertation, Washington University. 1974.
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137A dilemma for Bartley's pancritical rationalismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (1): 86-89. 1991.
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135Kekes on problem-solving and rationalityPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (2): 191-194. 1984.
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144Review essays : Unfathomed knowledge, unmeasured worth and growth?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (1): 97-102. 1993.
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22Doubting ’Descartes’s Self-DoubtPhilosophy Research Archives 6 402-426. 1980.In the second Meditation Descartes claims to establish beyond a doubt that he exists. In the third Meditation, however, he seems to question this claim. There he maintains that until he has proven that there is a nondeceiving God, he cannot remove the demon hypothesis and, hence, cannot "be certain of anything," In his "Descartes Self-Doubt" Donald Sievert proposes a reading of the text which would allow Descartes to make both claims without contradiction. According to Sievert, Descartes advance…Read more
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45Quinean relativism: Beyond metaphysical realism and idealismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 18 (4): 393-410. 1980.
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245Rescher's unsuccessful evolutionary argumentBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1): 295-301. 1994.
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141Quinean Relativism: Beyond Metaphysical Realism and IdealismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 18 (4): 393-410. 1980.
Washington University in St. Louis
PhD, 1974
University Park, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Other Academic Areas, Misc |