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Project

Method in madness
Acronym
Method in madnes
Code
3E017011
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
naturalized epistemology bounded rationality irrationality
 
Project description
 

In the Enlightenment tradition, the faculty of reason was viewed as a defining characteristic of man, and irrationality was put in stark opposition to reason. This project goes beyond this traditional dualistic conception and aims to integrate irrationality in the framework of naturalized epistemology, which recognizes human reason as a biological faculty acquired over a long process of evolution.