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0000-0003-3938-9255
Current Organisation
Nanyang Technological University
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2016
DOI: 10.1111/PHC3.12363
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-07-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-01-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-12-2021
DOI: 10.1002/9781119399919.EAHAA00724
Abstract: Xunzi, a third‐century bce thinker, promulgated and defended Confucian ideals, such as ritual, music, and propriety. Xunzi was the first Confucian thinker who suggested that human beings should work with Heaven, that human nature is bad, and that human nature can and needs to be transformed by effort. Xunzi developed concepts, such as Dao (Way‐moral standards), xin (heart‐mind), ming (names), and xue (learning), that shaped Chinese intellectual discourse. He also discussed, in nascent form, concepts that were later developed extensively by Confucian thinkers, such as qing (feeling/emotion) and li (pattern/order).
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-03-2016
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date: 2022
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Date: 30-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-10-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S44204-022-00049-9
Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the nature of a particular form of theoretical reasoning—ratiocination. Ratiocination is purposeful, self-conscious, deliberatively controlled reasoning. I will argue that ratiocination concludes when the ratiocinator believes that she ought to believe p . In Section 1, I suggest that the way a reasoner’s mind moves in ratiocination is different from the way her mind moves in non-ratiocinative reasoning. Such a difference should motivate an analysis that focuses just on ratiocination. In Section 2, I provide a general characterisation of ratiocination and distinguish it from non-ratiocinative reasoning. I draw a distinction between non-deliberative rational control and deliberative rational control. I then argue that the ratiocinator always exercises the latter. Since theoretical reasoning is a norm-governed activity and since ratiocination involves deliberatively controlled reasoning, the ratiocinator necessarily tries to control her mental movements in a way that is in line with the normative requirements of this activity. In Section 3, I argue that ratiocination ends when the ratiocinator believes that she ought to believe p . I further explain the nature of the ‘ought’ in the ratiocinator’s belief that she ought to believe p . In Section 4, I address possible objections to the account on offer and explain why my account does not undermine our general understanding of the nature of theoretical reasoning. I explain that my claim is compatible with the claim that reasons to be rational are transparent to reasons to believe p . I also discuss why the ratiocinator’s belief that she ought to believe p is not an intermediate stage in ratiocination. Finally, I argue that ratiocination, as described, is compatible with the claim that belief is truth-governed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date: 2022
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2020
Abstract: This essay analyses the Confucian conception of xin, an attribute that broadly resembles what we would ordinarily call trustworthiness. More specifically, it provides an analysis of the psychology of someone who is xin and highlights a feature of the Confucian conception of trustworthiness: the trustworthy person has to ensure that there is a match between her self-presentation and the way she is. My goal is not to argue against any of the existing accounts of trustworthiness but to draw on Confucian insights so as to shed light on features of trustworthiness that are overlooked in current discussions. I hope to show that the Confucian conception of trustworthiness puts more emphasis on the way a trustworthy person actively tries to make sure another’s dependency on her is not unwarranted than on how the trustworthy person responds to the one who gives trust.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-06-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 27-09-2014
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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