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A Rhetorical Conception of Practical Rationality

Journal of economic issues, 1996-12, Vol.30 (4), p.1127-1142 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

1996 by Journal of Economic Issues-Association for Evolutionary Economics. 1996 ;Copyright 1996 Journal of Economic Issues-Association for Evolutionary Economics ;ISSN: 0021-3624 ;EISSN: 1946-326X ;DOI: 10.1080/00213624.1996.11505868 ;CODEN: JECIAR

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  • Title:
    A Rhetorical Conception of Practical Rationality
  • Author: Quinn, Kevin
  • Subjects: Classical rhetoric ; Economic theory ; Epistemology ; Foundationalism ; McCloskey, D ; Political rhetoric ; Postmodern rhetoric ; Practical reason ; Rational choice theory ; Rational expectations ; Rationality ; Reason ; Rhetoric ; Self understanding ; Studies ; Taylor, Charles (philosopher)
  • Is Part Of: Journal of economic issues, 1996-12, Vol.30 (4), p.1127-1142
  • Description: D. N. McCloskey's controversial work on the rhetoric of economics has made the profession aware of the challenge offered by rhetoric to its modernist, foundationalist, Cartesian picture of theoretical rationality. However, except in fairly sketchy and allusive ways, the potential challenge rhetoric offers to rational choice theory - the conception of practical reason that virtually defines neoclassical economics - has been missing from her work. McCloskey has used rhetoric to present an alternative picture of the knowing subject but has stopped short when it comes to the implications of rhetoric for the acting, doing subject. These implications - the outlines of a rhetoric-based philosophical anthropology - are the concern of Wayne Booth (1974). Rhetoric for McCloskey has epistemological implications for the discipline.
  • Publisher: Sacramento, Calif: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0021-3624
    EISSN: 1946-326X
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.1996.11505868
    CODEN: JECIAR
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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