La razionalità, Carocci Editore, Roma, Sep 19, 2013
The book describes how the concept of rationality has evolved in the last decades. Since the earl... more The book describes how the concept of rationality has evolved in the last decades. Since the early seventies, several experimental studies on reasoning have produced evidence that human people diverge significantly from the classical normative standards of rationality, such as deductive logic, standard probability theory and expected utility theory, failing to solve apparently simple reasoning tasks. There have been many controversies on what such experimental results on reasoning indicate about human rationality, giving rise to what has been called “the rationality debate”. In the first chapter, I provide an overview of how rationality has been studied in the field of social sciences, especially philosophy, and economics, focusing on some specific theoretical issues, such as the distinction between different types of rationality, the derivations of the norms of rationality and the functions which has been attributed to it in explaining human behaviour. In the second chapter, three well-known experiments on human reasoning are presented and then the origins of the rationality debate are described. The third chapter deals with psychological accounts of rationality, such as evolutionary and ecological theories, which are considered to be developments of Simon’s bounded rationality, taking into account both cognitive and environmental constraints when explaining how people actually reason. In the four chapter, I present the most recent approaches to rationality, particularly dual processes theories of cognition and the argumentative theory of reasoning, and then the implications that socio-cultural differences in people’s ways of reasoning may have in defining what rationality amounts to.
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- assertion and its social effects
- assertion and conversational dynamics
- assertion, presupposition and implicature
- assertion and testimony
- assertion and epistemic injustice
- assertion and its relation to other speech acts
- assertion and its norm(s)
- insincerity, lying and misleading
- epistemic vigilance
- dangerous speech acts (e.g. silencing)
- insulting and hate speech (e.g slurs)
- empirical work on speech acts
Submissions may be in English and Italian, and should include an abstract of no more than 250 words (in English) and 5 keywords (also in English). Submissions must be fully anonymised and prepared for blind review. RIFL provides a Word template for the preparation of the manuscript [Download: http://www.rifl.unical.it/authortemplate/template_eng.doc]. The usage of the template is mandatory.
Workshop “Perspectives on speech as action”
Trieste 8-9 November 2018
The workshop is organized on the occasion of Marina Sbisà’s retirement
Keynote speakers: Mitchell Green (University of Connecticut), Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck College, London)
Confirmed speakers:
Claudia Bianchi (San Raffaele, Milan)
Laura Caponetto (San Raffaele, Milan)
Bianca Cepollaro (San Raffaele, Milan)
Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa)
Paolo Leonardi (University of Bologna)
Marco Mazzone (University of Catania)
Maciej Witek (University of Szczecin)
We have reserved some slots to be filled through an open call for abstracts.
Speech as action in the tradition of speech act theory includes locution, illocution, and perlocution: each of these areas is studied according to different perspectives, theoretical and applied, descriptive and experimental. In each of these areas contributions are invited, from any perspective, about speaker intention, social convention, intersubjective agreement, linguistic indicators, kinds of effects brought about, the role of norms, kinds of assessment, the role of context, accommodation effects, as well as about the appropriate model of action and conception of agency.
Abstracts (between 600 and 800 words long, references included) should be prepared for blind review and sent to <[email protected]> before July 31, 2018. Acceptance will be notified by August 31.
For any questions, please email Paolo Labinaz ([email protected]).
Organisers: Paolo Labinaz and Marianna Ginocchietti (Trieste).
List of confirmed speakers:
Marina Terkourafi, Mark Jary, Mikhail Kissine, Tomoyuki Yamada, Gregory Bochner,
F. Ch. Dörge, Neri Marsili, Marcin Lewinski, Leo Townsend, Grzegorz Gaszczyk,
Chloé Muteau-Jaouen, Lucy McDonald, Mitchell Green, Jennifer Hornsby, Claudia Bianchi, Laura Caponetto, Filippo Domaneschi, Paolo Leonardi, Marco Mazzone,
Maciej Witek, Bruno Ambroise, Rae Langton, Bart Geurts.
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