To Know or Not to Know

Beyond Realism and Anti-Realism

Jan J.T. Srzednicki (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4418-1 (ISBN)

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l. THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF EPISTEMOLOGY There is a philosophical issue that surely precedes all other possible questions. It concerns the very possibility of our thinking about some thing to some purpose. Short of this no philosophy, theory or research would be possible. But it is not immediately clear that we are assured that what purports to be effective thought, and cognition is such in reality. What guarantee is there for instance that when one is under the impression that one is thinking that "the cat is on the mat" it is in fact the case that one is thinking this? One could not be thinking at all, only having a misleading mystic experience. And then even if one was thinking, one might not be really thinking of the cat being on the mat, but only that one wishes there was a cat, and wonders whether if there was it would be on the mat, and yet the subjective impression was that one was thinking: "The cat is on the mat" (the same picture might stand for both the thoughts mentioned). Then one might in some way try to think 'the cat is on the mat. ' yet be mistaken in that there aren't any material objects at all, and all one does is to inventory god's perceptions. And so on, and so on! These are of course the kind of problem that the layman habitually views with disdainful alarm.

Analytical Table of Contents.- 1 / Paradigmatic Base.- 2 / Fact vs. Hypothesis.- 3 / Sources of Knowledge.- 4 / Pre-Conditions of Knowledge 1.- 5 / Pre-Conditions of Knowledge 2.- 6 / Pre-Conditions of Knowledge 3.- 7 / Ontological Commitment.- 8 / The Normative Constraint.- 9 / Conclusion: A Picture of the Theory.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Synthese Library ; 244
Zusatzinfo	XXXII, 224 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	90-481-4418-3 / 9048144183
ISBN-13	978-90-481-4418-1 / 9789048144181
Zustand	Neuware