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Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection - Couverture souple

Weissman, David

 
9780791401316: Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0791401316 ISBN 13 : 9780791401316
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1989

Synopsis

"It is without any doubt Weissman's most mature, richest work and builds nicely on his earlier volumes, especially Intuition and Ideality. It is downright delightful to see a careful thinker unabashedly engaged in the great speculative enterprise of metaphysics and to observe with what skill he avoids the minefields that had blown up his predecessors. Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection is an important book by a rapidly developing major voice in this country." -- John Lachs, Vanderbilt University

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.

"Written with clarity and elegance, it is a well-argued defense of an important alternative to both analytic philosophy and phenomenology." --Panayot Butchvarov, The University of Iowa

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0791401316
ISBN 13 
9780791401316
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780791401309: Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0791401308 ISBN 13 :  9780791401309
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1989
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