Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10927979 |
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| Authors | Aleksandar Fatić (0000-0002-5672-7183, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 483-490 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00483931231200697 |
| OpenAlex | W4386860251 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Joseph Agassi’s last book, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs, offers a comprehensive look at key philosophical topics and doctrines with a common focus on the role of rationality, the evolution of rationality and the relationship between rationality and akin phenomena. A key topic he addresses is the relationship between rationality and magic. This dichotomy reverberates on a number of areas of applied philosophy, including philosophical practice and philosophically informed psychotherapy. Agassi’s views on magic offer a fundamentally rationalist view of the phenomenon of magic, however they open up significant inroads into nuanced insights of how magic can be seen as a cognitively significant complement to rationality in the strict sense
Epistemology · Key (lock) · MAGIC (telescope) · Phenomenon · Rationality · Sociology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Highly cited | No |
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