The Concept of Objectivity: An Approximation (American University Studies / Series 5: Philosophy, Band 98) - Hardcover

Butler, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820413348 ISBN 13: 9780820413341

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

This book reconsiders the central epistemological problem since Descartes: the relationship of Mind/World. This is done not through the direct examination of rationality but through an analysis of the concept of objectivity. The development of the idea of objective knowledge is traced from the Presocratics to its effective culmination in Renaissance Science. The argument is that history shows that the acceptance of either a foundational or criteriological theory of truth is not a condition for the occurrence of progressive knowledge. The book concludes with the argument that the apparatus for objective judgment might further, with suitable modification, be transferred to problem areas outside of the empirical investigation of the Physical and Social Sciences.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820413348
• ISBN 13: 9780820413341
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
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