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Rescuing Reason
Author | : R. Nola |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789401002899 |
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Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay of relations of power - the view of Michel Foucault? Or does our knowledge arise from "the will to power" - the view of Nietzsche? This volume sets out to critically examine the theses of those who would debunk the idea of rational explanation. The book is wide-ranging. The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny.
Rescuing Reason
Author | : Robert Nola |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9401002908 |
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Journeys in Caribbean Thought
Author | : Paget Henry |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2016-03-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781783489374 |
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For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry. Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader outlines the trajectory of Henry’s scholarly career, beginning and ending with his most recent work on the distinctive character of Africana and Caribbean philosophy and political and intellectual leadership in his home of Antigua and Barbuda. In between, the book returns to Henry’s early consideration of the relationship of political economy to cultural flourishing or stagnation and how both should be studied, and to the problem with which Henry began his career, of peripheral development through a focus on Caribbean political economy and democratic socialism. Henry’s canonical work in Anglo-Caribbean thought draws upon a heavily creolized canon.
Rescuing Reason
Author | : Robert Nola |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2003-02-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781402010439 |
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Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay of relations of power - the view of Michel Foucault? Or does our knowledge arise from "the will to power" - the view of Nietzsche? This volume sets out to critically examine the theses of those who would debunk the idea of rational explanation. The book is wide-ranging. The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny.
Rationality Rules and Ideals
Author | : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Robert Audi |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055895299 |
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A collection of essays by prestigious authors discussing the work of Bernard Gert, Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College.
Charlie to the Rescue
Author | : Robert Michael Ballantyne |
Publsiher | : New York : T. Nelson |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433082524756 |
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The Philosophy of Literature
Author | : Condé Bénoist Pallen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433082504865 |
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Her Rescue from the Turks
Author | : St. George Rathborne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : OSU:32435054744487 |
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