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SCIENCE STUDIES EVENTS
RATIONALITY AND NORMATIVITY
Mark Colyvan
Department of Philosophy
University of Queensland, Australia
May 4, 2004
Tuesday, 12:30pm
Sumwalt College, Room 102
In this paper, I discuss the problem of providing an account of the
normative force of theories of rationality. The theories considered are
theories of rational inference, rational belief and rational decision —
logic, probability theory and decision theory, respectively. I provide a
naturalistic account of the normativity of these theories that is not
viciously circular. The account offered does have its limitations though:
it delivers a defeasible account of rationality. On this view, theories of
rational inference, belief and decision are not a priori. Rather, they are
a posteriori and may change over time.
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