Volume 40, Issue Supplement, 2015
Selected Papers from the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy
Jason Stanley
Pages 315-323
Knowledge, Habit, Practice, Skill
According to Pierre Bourdieu, practices and habits are out the realm of rationality; this claim about their nature explains their peculiar resistance to rational revision. I argue that one can explain the fact that practices and habits are difficult to revise, without abandoning the view that they are within the space of reasons.