Rationality assumptions and their limits

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2021-11-22
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Feleppa, Robert
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Feleppa, R. (2021). Rationality Assumptions and their Limits. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 51(6), 574–599. https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931211052017

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In “Different Cultures, Different Rationalities” (2000) Stephen Lukes weighs in on the controversies concerning the killing of Captain Cook by Hawaiians and what it says about the role of rationality assumptions in translation. While at first seeming to adopt a Davidsonian anti-relativist position concerning the enabling role of assumptions of common rationality in interpretation, Lukes rejects Davidson’s view, and opts instead for a “totalizing” strategy inspired by Mauss. Here I explore rationales for Lukes’ position and endeavor to reconcile Lukes’, Davidson’s, and Mauss’s positions by developing a case for a limited interpretive requirement of shared rationality.

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