In the Margins Behind the Lines:
Collected Writings, Volume III.
Philosophy 1981
A New Model of Rationality
(Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard
University)
ISBN#978-3-9813763-6-4. €20.00
Adrian Piper wrote her dissertation under the supervision of John Rawls, and her approach to the subject of
rationality was influenced by his, as well as by his Theory of Justice. Discovering fertile areas of
disagreement with his metaethical views of reason and the self instinctively motivated her to formulate
alternatives. The dissertation roughs out the basic foundations of the metaethical theory she subsequently
developed in a series of articles and finally published in 2008 in Rationality and the Structure of the
Self. Forthcoming