Philosophy After Objectivity

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195351355
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy after Objectivity written by Paul K. Moser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of philosophy, philosophers have sought objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one's conceiving of them. This book uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other theoretical views. It argues that we cannot meet skeptics' typical demands for nonquestion-begging support for claims to objective truth, and that therefore we should not regard our supporting reasons as resistant to skeptical challenges. One key lesson is that a constructive, explanatory approach to philosophy must change the subject from skeptic-resistant reasons to perspectival reasons arising from variable semantic commitments and instrumental, purpose-relative considerations. The book lays foundations for such a reorientation of philosophy, treating fundamental methodological issues in ontology, epistemology, the theory of meaning, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of practical rationality. It explains how certain perennial debates in philosophy rest not on genuine disagreement, but on conceptual diversity: talk about different matters. The book shows how acknowledgment of conceptual diversity can resolve a range of traditional disputes in philosophy. It also explains why philosophers need not anchor their discipline in the physicalism of the natural sciences.

Author : James Conant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107194156
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning written by James Conant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new interpretations and applications of Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to fundamental issues in contemporary theoretical debates.

Author : Crispin Wright
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674045386
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth and Objectivity written by Crispin Wright and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of “realism” in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical “deflationary” conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the “deflationary” conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.

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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kurze Geschichts-Erzehlung auf was Weise die Stadt Hildesheim nothgedrungen worden, gegen und wider die Hoch-Stifftliche Hildesheimische Regierung, Amt Steuerwald ingleichen Kloster ad S. Michaelem bey dem Kayserl. Cammer-Gericht Klage zu erheben written by and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Günter Figal
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432054
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objectivity written by Günter Figal and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal’s groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.

Author : Max Kölbel
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415272452
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth Without Objectivity written by Max Kölbel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory.

Author : Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317500008
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth written by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism. It examines four major philosophical theories in easy to understand terms while maintaining a critical insight which is fundamental to the contemporary study of journalism. The book aims to move forward the discussion of truth in the news media by dissecting commonly used concepts such as bias, objectivity, balance, fairness, in a philosophically-grounded way, drawing on in depth interviews with journalists to explore how journalists talk about truth.

Author : Michael P. Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621458
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Truth written by Michael P. Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-04-13 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is truth?" has long been the philosophical question par excellence. The Nature of Truth collects in one volume the twentieth century's most influential philosophical work on the subject. The coverage strikes a balance between classic works and the leading edge of current philosophical research. The essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? And if so, what sort of nature does it have? Thus the book discusses both traditional and deflationary theories of truth, as well as phenomenological, postmodern, and pluralist approaches to the problem. The essays are organized by theory. Each of the seven sections opens with a detailed introduction that not only discusses the essays in that section but relates them to other relevant essays in the book. Eleven of the essays are previously unpublished or substantially revised. The book also includes suggestions for further reading. Contributors Linda Martín Alcoff, William P. Alston, J.L. Austin, Brand Blanshard, Marian David, Donald Davidson, Michael Devitt, Michael Dummett, Hartry Field, Michel Foucault, Dorothy Grover, Anil Gupta, Martin Heidegger, Terence Horgan, Jennifer Hornsby, Paul Horwich, William James, Michael P. Lynch, Charles Sanders Pierce, Hilary Putnam, W.V.O. Quine, F.P. Ramsey, Richard Rorty, Bertrand Russell, Scott Soames, Ernest Sosa, P.F. Strawson, Alfred Tarski, Ralph C. Walker, Crispin Wright

Author : Dallas Willard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge written by Dallas Willard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy Axtell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509502092
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objectivity written by Guy Axtell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal 'know-how' or 'objective facts'? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should we value objectivity, and is it achievable anyway? These are a few of the thought-provoking questions Guy Axtell asks in this comprehensive new text book, employing examples from the natural and social sciences as well as philosophy. This unique introduction surveys the key issues in a clear and concise way, assessing the nature of objectivity and value of the demand to be impartial decision-makers. Moving beyond the fundamentals, Axtell explores contemporary feminist and social epistemological attempts to 'reconstruct' the concept of objectivity, explains the implications of the so-called science wars for philosophy and the analytical method, and the ethical consequences of these debates. Objectivity is an excellent introduction to one of the most exciting areas of study in philosophy and science today. Students and scholars alike will value this balanced guide to a hotly contested, and vitally important, topic.