'The View from Within' from Without

Rationality demands that we change our minds when we find our thinking violates the normative frameworks we embrace, or when our normative frameworks themselves are found wanting. But how can we change our minds about the very standards we rely on to change our minds? This paradox is crucial to philosophers and matters to all thoughtful practitioners. It must be resolved if we are to understand how, say, scientists, religious believers, politicians, and psychotherapists working within their respective frameworks may come to reflect rationally on their orientation itself. In "The View from Within," philosophers Menachem Fisch and Yitzhak Benbaji offer a solution of rigor and elegance, showing how dialogue with critics can foster creative ambivalence that lets us question our own commitments. The present volume brings together the thought and reflection of leading philosophers, social scientists, scholars of religion, and historians, each addressing the implications of "The View from Within" from her or his own vantage and perspective.

Noah Efron (Herausgegeben von) Born 1959; member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; Fellow at Harvard University, Columbia Universities, University of Pennsylvania and MIT; chairs the Program in Science, Technology & Society at Bar-Ilan University. Ariel Furstenberg (Herausgegeben von) Born 1970; graduate studies at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University; post-doctorate studies at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; researcher at The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.