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Autore |
Scheffler Israel |
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Titolo |
Worlds of truth : a philosophy of knowledge / / by Israel Scheffler |
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Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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9786612117343 |
9781282117341 |
1282117343 |
9781444310948 |
1444310941 |
9781444310931 |
1444310933 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (163 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Knowledge, Theory of |
Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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WORLDS OF TRUTH: A Philosophy of Knowledge; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Inquiry; Chapter 1: Justification; 1. Beliefs; 2. Access to Truth; 3. Cogito Ergo Sum; 4. Mathematical Certainty; 5. Classical Logic; 6. C. I. Lewis' Empiricism; 7. Access as a Metaphor; 8. J. F. Fries and K. Popper; 9. Voluntarism and Linearity; 10. One-Way Justification; 11. Beginning in the Middle; 12. Justification, Contextual and Comparative; 13. Justification in the Empirical Sciences; 14. Circularity versus Linearity; 15. Democratic Controls; 16. Interactionism; Chapter 2: Truth |
1. Allergy to Absolute Truth2. Provisionality and Truth; 3. Truth versus Verification; 4. Truth and Fixity; 5. Transparency, Tarski, and Carnap; 6. Truth and Certainty; 7. Sentences as Truth Candidates; 8. Theoretical Terms; 9. Varieties of Instrumentalism; 10. Pragmatism and Instrumentalism; 11. Systems, Simplicity, Reduction; 12. Crises in Science; 13. Reduction and Expansion; Chapter 3: Worlds; 1. Philosophies of Truth; 2. Operationism and Truth; 3. Version-Dependence; 4. Differences among Scientifically Oriented Philosophers; |
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5. Monism, Pluralism, Plurealism; 6. Realism versus Irrealism |
7. A Theory of Everything8. The Status of Ethics; 9. Emotive Theories; Ayer and Stevenson; 10. Moore's Ethical Intuitionism; 11. Dewey and Ethical Naturalism; 12. Symbol, Reference, and Ritual; Part II: Related Pragmatic Themes; Chapter 4: Belief and Method; Introduction; 1. Problems of Pragmatism and Pragmatic Responses; 2. Peirce's Theory of Belief, Doubt, and Inquiry; 3. Peirce's Comparison of Methods; 4. Difficulties in Peirce's Treatment; 5. An Epistemological Interpretation; 6. The Primacy of Method; Chapter 5: Action and Commitment; Chapter 6: Emotion and Cognition |
1. Emotions in the Service of Cognition2. Cognitive Emotions; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge explicates and builds upon a half century of philosophical work by the noted philosopher Israel Scheffler.Propounds a new doctrine of plurealism which maintains the existence of multiple real worldsOffers a defense of absolute truth, which denies certainty and eschews absolutism, and defends systematic relativity, objectivity, and fallibilismEmphasizes a wide range of pragmatic interests: epistemology and scientific development, cognition and emotion, science and ethics, ritual and culture, and art and scien |
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