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9780521297769

Reason, Truth and History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521297769

  • ISBN10:

    0521297761

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1981-12-31
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

'This is a timely book, with penetrating discussion of issues very much in the forefront of the contemporary philosophy. Despite the prominence of negative arguments it contains much to contribute positively to our understanding of what is needed for a conception of rationality and objectivity that covers ethics and value theory generally as well as physics.'

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Brains in a vat
2. A problem about reference
3. Two philosophical perspectives
4. Mind and body
5. Two conceptions of rationality
6. Fact and value
7. Reason and history
8. The impact of science on modern conceptions of rationality
9. Values, facts and cognition
Appendix
Index.

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