Essays on Truth and Reality (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Bradley, F. H. Edgar William Edgar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133139287X ISBN 13 : 9781331392873

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore a foundational work that questions how truth and reality fit together in our thinking.

This collection challenges common beliefs about knowledge, meaning, and the nature of evidence, inviting readers to consider how our ideas must align with the total structure of experience. Bradley surveys key questions in a rigorous, accessible way. The book moves from the idea that truth depends on coherence and conditions, to practical and historical perspectives on belief, knowledge, and action. It lays out a careful program for understanding how partial truths relate to the whole and why philosophy must reckon with both feeling and reason.

• Examination of truth as it relates to practice, judgment, and experience
• Discussion of pragmatism, instrumentalism, and their limits
• Analysis of truth in relation to copying, coherence, and consistency
• Focus on immediate experience, introspection, and how we know what we know

Ideal for readers who want a principled, historical approach to how truth is tested, valued, and made sense of in everyday life and in philosophical inquiry.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Essays on Truth and Reality

I have been unwilling to include so many pages on Pragmatism. The subject certainly does not occupy a corresponding space in my mind. But the reader perhaps will recognize that, having been in a manner forced here to write in self-defence, I am no longer free merely to consult my own wishes. He will find, I trust, that the discussion, if too long, throws light on some points of interest; and in any case the remedy remains in his power. On the other hand, I should be sorry if the examination of 'Radical Empiricism' were left unread.

It is a satisfaction to me, when approaching the end of my own career, to note (whatever school or tendency may from time to time be in fashion) the increasing devotion amongst us to metaphysical inquiry. There has been, I think, a rise in the general level of English philosophical thought such as fifty years ago might well have seemed incredible. I am the more resigned to add that the best which I can now myself expect to do is to collect some other scattered writings, as well as perhaps to republish those early volumes which I can no longer hope to re-write.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Pragmatism. The subject certainly does not occupy a corresponding space in my mind. But the reader perhaps will recognize that, having been in a manner forced here to write in self-defence, I am no longer free merely to consult my own wishes. He will find, I trust, that the discussion, if too long, throws light on some points of interest; and in any case the remedy remains in his power. On the other hand, I should be sorry if the examination of Radical Empiricism were left unread. It is a satisfaction to me, when approaching the end of my own career, to note (whatever school or tendency may from time to time be in fashion) the increasing devotion amongst us to metaphysical inquiry. There has been, I think, a rise in the general level of English philosophical thought such as fifty years ago might well have seemed incredible. I am the more resigned to add that the best which I can now myself expect to do is to collect some other scattered writings, as well as perhaps to republish those early volumes which I can no longer hope to re-write.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133139287X
• ISBN 13: 9781331392873
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 500
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible