Karl Jaspers' Theory of Irrationality

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Daniel Adsett is assistant professor teaching business ethics and philosophy at the American University in Bulgaria.

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In Karl Jaspers' Theory of Irrationality, Daniel Adsett explains how a Jaspersian view of irrationality makes better sense of the irrationality of delusions and worldviews than competing views, offering a novel contribution to contemporary debates about the character of reason.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Note on Translations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Foundationalism, Coherentism, and the Normativity of Rationality

Chapter 2: Jaspers on Irrationality

Chapter 3: What's So Irrational about Delusions? - Part I

Chapter 4: What's So Irrational about Delusions? - Part II

Chapter 5: Irrational Worldviews: On Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Catholicity

Chapter 6: Reflections and Considerations

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