On models of faith that take a cognitive component as central, and construe faith's object as propositional, reasonable faith arguably needs to conform to evidentialism the requirement, generally thought essential to rationality, to hold propositions to be true only to the extent justified on one's available evidence.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Millikan's discussion is that it assigns no essential role to rationality in sustaining conventions.
The third element is a controversial revisionist account of practical rationality essential to his argument aiming to show that virtually everyone under normal circumstances has reason to accept and to abide by the constraints imposed by these principles (Gauthier 1986, chapter 6).
Thus, various forms of rationality become essential to the social sciences, because of the nature of the social domain.
As we have seen, many feminist philosophers argue that it is a mistake to hold that rationality alone is essential to the self and that the ideal self is transparent, unified, coherent, and independent, for they discern misogynist subtexts in the atomistic individualism of the Kantian ethical subject and homo economicus (see Section 1).
Although this interpretation of Kuhn paints him as a rationalist, it posits a form of rationalism that rejects two claims that many rationalists had thought essential to their enterprise: (i) that rationality is a rule-governed process, and (ii) that scientific progress is cumulative.
Like all utopian promises, eugenics disguised its essential dystopianism in the language of order, rationality, cleanliness and the irrefutability of science.
In fact, it is the key point behind Kim's strategy, and it appears to have no essential connection to McDowell's stronger views about rationality.
A structured tool such as this provides an essential 'rational' starting point for these discussions (although rationality is bounded within the information set available).
