Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection

This book describes a realist, fallibilist alternative when intuitionism and its psychocentric ontology are rejected. Weissman proposes an agenda for metaphysical inquiry and also a method for testing metaphysical claims. Arguing that science and metaphysics are successive refinements of the maps and plans used in practical life, he affirms that metaphysics is to complete our self-understanding by locating us within a world we have not made.
This book is a sequel to Intuition and Ideality which surveys the many versions of intuitionism-intuitionism as it prescribes that reality be identified with mind itself or with the things set before our inspecting mind.

Info autore

David Weissman is Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He is the author of Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence and Truth's Debt to Value, among other books.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Weissman
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.09.1989
• EAN: 9780791401316
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0131-6
• Pagine: 241
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 345 g
• Serie: Suny Series in Systematic Phil; Suny Series in Systematic Phil; Suny Systematic Philosophy
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione