{"id":111,"date":"2015-01-13T23:26:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T23:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=111"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:08:58","slug":"what-is-rationality-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/what-is-rationality-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Rationality, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter Dennis\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jonathan Birch<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2812\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u00a013 January 2015, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-Peter-Dennis.aspx\"><strong>Peter Dennis<\/strong><\/a>, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-Jonathan-Birch.aspx\"><strong>Jonathan Birch<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Appeals to rationality are found in every area of life. We all aspire to be rational, and criticise others when we think they\u2019re being irrational. But how can we accuse one other of being irrational if we don\u2019t know what it is? In this lecture,\u00a0<strong>Peter Dennis<\/strong>\u00a0considered what rationality is\u2014and why we need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Dennis\/\u00a0Jonathan Birch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[40,38,39],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-epistemology","tag-phillse","tag-rationality"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}