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 Introduction I. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Plato to Russell Plato Aristotle Medieval Nominalism: Abelard and Ockham Descartes Enlightenment "nominalism": Hobbes, Locke, Reid, Hume Kant Mill and Frege Russell II. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Wittgenstein to Brandom Wittgenstein Godel, Carnap and Ayer Quine Kripke Searle Brandom III. Religious Certainty Religious Facts The Illative Sense Testimony Composite Judgment IV. Political Certainty Tacit Normative Inclusion Juxtaposition Metanarrative Citizen Spells V. Familial/Tribal Certainty Socialization Grice Gettier Grue De Re and De Dicto Aggregated Knowledge as Home Spells (Again) VI. Scientific Certainty Maps and Posits Characterizations Negative-Free Characterizations Scientific Characterizations Natural, Aqueous and "Filled-In" Kinds Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend Communities of Tacit Knowledge VII. Certainty As We Understand It Reason-Exchanging Practices Problematic Background/Inventory Perfect and Imperfect Characterizations As 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