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  title info:
    title: Unfinished business
    sub title: rational attitudes in reasoning
  name:
    name part: Staffel, Julia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "Explaining how people reason is central to understanding ourselves as human beings. Complex deliberations that take unexpected turns are central to many good detective stories, but they are also ubiquitous in everyday life and academic research. While philosophers have studied both ends of complex deliberations-learning new information and reaching justified conclusions-little has been said about our states of mind when we are in the middle of thought. Yet, this stage of intellectual limbo is where we often produce genuine insight. Unfinished Business advances a new theory of the transitional stages of complex deliberation, integrating theoretical research in philosophy with empirical results from cognitive science. It postulates a new attitude type, transitional attitudes, that we hold towards potential answers to the question at hand while we're deliberating. Transitional attitudes possess their own rationality conditions that differ from the norms of rationality typically applied to conclusions of reasoning. The resulting abstract framework reveals deep structural similarities among such varied intellectual pursuits as determining the significance of a historical artefact, deciding on a person's guilt in court, deliberating about a philosophical problem, or searching for a mathematical proof. It can help us make progress on difficult philosophical questions, such as how we should respond to misleading higher-order evidence, how we should formally model logical learning, and how confident we can rationally be in our own philosophical positions. In this book, Julia Staffel makes a novel contribution to the study of reasoning and rationality. Most of the theorizing in these areas either studies the nature of simple inferences, or the conditions under which we can reach justified conclusions. Unfinished Business examines how we should theorize about the attitudes we have towards possible answers to a question of interest while our reasoning is ongoing. It focuses on…
  table of contents: Part I: The View. 1. The Big Picture -- 2. The Problem -- 3. The Solution - Introducing Transitional and Terminal Attitudes -- 4. The Solution - Introducing Pro Tem and Pro Toto Rationality -- Part II: The Details. 5. How to Categorize Attitudes -- 6. Filling in the Definition Schema of Pro Tem Rationality, Condition (I) -- 7. Filling in the Definition Schema of Pro Tem Rationality, Condition (II) -- 8. Open Questions, Objections, and Replies -- Part III: Applications. 9. Higher-Order Evidence -- 10. Bayesian Double Standards - How to Model Logical Learning -- 11. Reasoning about Philosophy -- 12. Finishing the Job?
  note: Julia Staffel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Reasoning
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Rationalism
  subject:
    topic: Rationalisme
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de la connaissance
  subject:
    topic: rationalism (philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: epistemology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Mind & Body
  subject:
    topic: Political
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy: logic
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: BC177 .S73 2025
  classification: 160
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    title info:
      title: Unfinished business
    name:
      name part: Staffel, Julia.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024953080
    identifier: (OCoLC)1477936192
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    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250210
    record change date: 20260319205734.4
    record identifier: in00005728074
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng