David Hume og vår verden
Amartya Sen skriver om David Humes syn på kunnskap, følelser og fornuft, og trekker linjer til dagens debatter; global oppvarming, finanskrise og globalisering: Great harm has been done by the presumption that reasoning can be given a role only if it is able to resolve every decisional problem. Indeed, understanding the incompleteness of our ordered information about the world is an integral part of human reasoning.
Publisert: 11. januar 2012
Amartya Sen skriver om David Humes syn på kunnskap, følelser og fornuft, og trekker linjer til dagens debatter; global oppvarming, finanskrise og globalisering. Les artikkelen hos The New Republic.
«Great harm has been done to contemporary decision theory and the theory of rational choice by the presumption that reasoning can be given a role only if it is able to resolve every decisional problem. Indeed, understanding the incompleteness of our ordered information about the world, or stopping at incomplete—but articulate—orderings of alternative courses of action, is an integral part of human reasoning.»
«The importance of epistemology for ethics—for example, about whether or not there is “global warming” and to what extent human behavior is contributing to it—has never been stronger. This is particularly worth emphasizing, since the pursuit of serious knowledge relevant to justice, varying from economic causation to environmental connections, seems to be under some threat in the contemporary world.»
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