A Modest Certainty

Informationen zum Autor By Frank D. Schubert Klappentext Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. The result is a new "philosophy in a grand manner" and a powerful ethical proposal for our time. Zusammenfassung Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. The result is a new “philosophy in a grand manner” and a powerful ethical proposal for our time. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionI. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Plato to RussellPlatoAristotleMedieval Nominalism: Abelard and OckhamDescartesEnlightenment "nominalism": Hobbes, Locke, Reid, HumeKantMill and FregeRussellII. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Wittgenstein to BrandomWittgensteinGodel, Carnap and AyerQuineKripkeSearleBrandomIII. Religious CertaintyReligious FactsThe Illative SenseTestimonyCompositeJudgmentIV. Political CertaintyTacitNormative InclusionJuxtapositionMetanarrativeCitizenSpellsV. Familial/Tribal CertaintySocializationGriceGettierGrueDe Re and De DictoAggregated Knowledge as HomeSpells (Again)VI. Scientific CertaintyMaps and PositsCharacterizationsNegative-Free CharacterizationsScientific CharacterizationsNatural, Aqueous and "Filled-In" KindsPopper, Kuhn, FeyerabendCommunities of Tacit KnowledgeVII. Certainty As We Understand ItReason-Exchanging PracticesProblematic Background/InventoryPerfect and Imperfect CharacterizationsAs We Understand It

Product details

• Authors: Frank D. Schubert, Schubert Frank D.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2012
• EAN: 9780761858973
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5897-3
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Certainty