Belief and Agency

by Robert G. Evans

Aristotle famously said that humans are rational animals and he distinguished two forms or kinds of human rationality. Practical rationality aims to answer questions about how to live and about what sort of person one should be. It deals with human action and the will. Theoretical rationality aims to answer questions about the nature of our world and of our place in it. It deals with human knowledge and the understanding. Philosophical work on rationality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0919813356
• ISBN13: 9780919813359
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 374 Pages