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Communication and rational justification

Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2001
As a response to the common criticism that phenomenology is handicapped by its descriptive faith, this article outlines a program for showing what a rational justification can be from a phenomenological perspective. The phenomenological position defended here stands between Rorty’s thesis of objectivity in solidarity and Habermas’s view of rationality
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Communicative Rationality, Logic, and Mathematics

2008
Based upon some explanations of the notions of communicative rationality in the sense of Habermas, and of communicative logic in the sense of the late C. S. Peirce, the author argues that the final meaning of mathematics is to be an aid for the rational communication of man.
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Community Technology and Democratic Rationalization

The Information Society, 2002
The objective of this paper is to explore questions of human agency and democratic process in the technical sphere through the example of "virtual community." The formation of relatively stable long-term group associations--community in the broad sense of the term--is the scene on which a large share of human development occurs.
Maria Bakardjieva, Andrew Feenberg
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Rationality and Communicative Action

2003
Habermas agrees with Weber that the ultimate consequence of religious and cultural rationalization is that modern culture fragments into different value spheres following their own inner logics of elaboration. He also agrees that this particular rationalization of culture and society is responsible for widespread feelings that modern life has become ...
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Paradigms, rationality, and partial communication

Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 1972
Critics have said that Kuhn's account of scientific revolutions represents them as subjective and irrational processes, in which mystical conversions and community pressures rather than good reasons determine choices between theories. Kuhn rejects the charge, insisting that there is partial communication among proponents of competing paradigm ...
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Communication among Rational Agents

1999
In this article we identify and give the formal semantics of a set of generic speech acts that can be performed by agents in communicating about a potential cooperation, and demonstrate how agents may reason about when, with whom, and what to communicate in this process.
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The Rationality of Human Communication

Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 1995
L'A. souleve la question de la rationalite de la communication humaine dans le cadre du tournant pragmatique de la philosophie analytique. Il s'agit de concilier la theorie intentionnelle de la signification developpee par P.
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Community Music and Rational Recreation

2018
Care and concern for the welfare of others is a central tenet of community music. Care often masks deeper issues of power and control, however. This chapter interrogates the nature of community music care and concern through an examination of the ancient Greek concept of schole, and the concept of ‘rational recreation,’ a term used to describe the ...
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Communicative Action and Rational Choice

2001
In this book Joseph Heath brings Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action into dialogue with the most sophisticated articulation of the instrumental conception of practical rationality-modern rational choice theory. Heath begins with an overview of Habermas's action theory and his critique of decision and game theory.
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Habermas on rationality: Means, ends and communication

European Journal of Political Theory, 2022
Adrian Blau
exaly