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Wetenschap en literatuur in discussie : bericht uit de literaire salon

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Literature and science as modes of expression
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ISBN: 0792301331 940107531X 9400922973 Year: 1989 Volume: vol 115 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London Kluwer

Made in America : science, technology, and American modernist poets
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ISBN: 0300038100 Year: 1987 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

Gaston Bachelard, subversive humanist : texts and readings
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ISBN: 029912794X 0299127907 Year: 1991 Publisher: Madison University of Wisconsin Press

Ficino to Descartes
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ISBN: 0299147940 9780299147945 9780299147907 0299147908 Year: 1995 Volume: vol. 1 Publisher: Madison, Wi ; London The University of Wisconsin press

Goethe : science et philosophie
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ISBN: 2130486746 Year: 1997 Volume: *5 Publisher: Paris Presses universitaires de France

Literature and rationality : ideas of agency in theory and fiction
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ISBN: 0521405408 0521064805 051151865X Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge New york Sydney Cambridge University Press

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This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science, and literary studies. Livingston provides a broad survey of the basic assumptions and questions associated with concepts of rationality in philosophical accounts of action, in decision theory, and in the theory of rational choice. He gives examples of the ways in which rationality is involved in the writing and reading of literary works, ranging from Icelandic sagas to Beckett, Dreiser, Lem, Poe and Zola. Topics examined include the role of concepts of desire, intention, and planning in action explanations, the relation between cognition and motivation, the rationality of desire, atomic versus agential perspectives on rationality, the rationality of groups and institutions, and the question of the rationality of science.

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