Thinking through Error

The Moving Target of Knowledge

Brunella Antomarini (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

142 Seiten

2012
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6716-8 (ISBN)

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The aim of Thinking through Error: The Moving Target of Knowledge is to describe knowledge as it works in our everyday attitude and behavior. Often in life, when making decisions and choices, we do not need to test the truth of our beliefs, so there must be another way to guide ourselves. With this in mind, Antomarini presents ‘thinking through error’ instead of ‘excluding error’. That is, we act through a slow process of guess-work, followed by quick gestures. By using our own uncertainty and our exploratory abilities, we face unpredictable situations and at the same time we acknowledge the constant presence of error in our thinking. Every decision we make continuously determines and replaces an entire universe within which that decision is plausible. Our everyday knowledge is a balance between a feeling of the truth and its negation.

Brunella Antomarini teaches contemporary philosophy and aesthetics at John Cabot University, Rome. Among her latest books are: L’errore del Maestro (Derive Approdi, Roma 2006) and Pensare con L’errore (Codice Edizioni, Torino 2007).

Chapter 1: The Forms and Their Errors
Chapter 2: The Non-Linear Adventures of the Theories of Color
Chapter 3: The Uselessness of Totality or a Short Survey in a Parallel Philosophical Tradition
Chapter 4: How We Guess
Interlude: The Wrong Decision
Chapter 5: A Defense of Insecurity
Chapter 6: Parallel Universes
Conclusion

Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-7391-6716-2 / 0739167162
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-6716-8 / 9780739167168
Zustand	Neuware