Rationality

This section explains a modern, basically orthodox model of rationality, and begins to introduce problems in its relationship to phenomenology, spirituality, and spiritual practice.

In this chapter:

First, a brief disclaimer on words, what they mean, what they are, and some unfortunate connotations for "rationality":

• Words, and "Rationality"

In modern theories of rationality, a distinction is made between two aspects: epistemic and instrumental rationality. There's a section here for each, and one inbetween on good epistemics:

• Epistemic Rationality
  • Good Epistemics
• Instrumental Rationality

I then discuss what I think rationality as a framework gets right, and the ways in which this perspective is circumscribed.

• What Rationality Gets Right
• What Are the Limits of This Perspective?