In Defense of Radical Empiricalism - Essays and Lectures by Roderick Firth

Roderick Firth's writings on epistemology amount to an exceptionally careful and cogent defense of an account of perceptual knowledge in the tradition Firth called 'radical empiricism.' This important book collects all of Firth's major works on epistemology; it also contains his only publication in ethics, the extremely influential essay on 'Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer.' In addition, the book includes a number of important previously unpublished essays. Together, these writings constitute the most finished and compelling version of traditional empiricist epistemology. This book will be of value to students and scholars of epistemology, phenomenalism, and ethics.

About the author

John Troyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Product details

• Authors: Roderick Firth, John Troyer, Troyer John
• Assisted by: John Troyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.1997
• EAN: 9780847687664
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8766-4
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 227 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory; Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory S.; Studies in Epistemology and Co; Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory; Studies in Epistemology and Co
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary essays, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge