Rationality

“In the years since I first read Bennett’s brilliant philosophical parable, it has often struck me as incredible that it never became part of the canon of what came to be known . . . as the Language of Thought. Bennett begins, like Mandeville, with honeybees . . . and he takes the reader step by compelling step across the distance that the bees would have to traverse to come abreast of us. The book in my view is a philosophical classic.”
    —Arthur Danto, Columbia University

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An Essay Towards an Analysis

Jonathan Bennett

1989 - 138 pp.

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Format ISBN Price Qty
Cloth 978-0-87220-067-8
$33.00
Paper 978-0-87220-066-1
$13.00

A reprint of the 1964 Routledge edition, with new preface by the author.

This stimulating work takes the concept of ‘rationality’, a concept that more than any other is supposed to express the essence of what it means to be human, and submits it to a careful and penetrating analysis. The conclusions drawn often challenge those previously suggested by both philosophers and psychologists.

 

Reviews:

“In the years since I first read Bennett’s brilliant philosophical parable, it has often struck me as incredible that it never became part of the canon of what came to be known . . . as the Language of Thought. Bennett begins, like Mandeville, with honeybees . . . and he takes the reader step by compelling step across the distance that the bees would have to traverse to come abreast of us. The book in my view is a philosophical classic.”
    —Arthur Danto, Columbia University