Considered Judgment / / Catherine Z. Elgin.
Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, foundationalism's heirs continue their forbears' quest, seeking security against epistemic...
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Elgin, Catherine Z., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Considered Judgment / Catherine Z. Elgin. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1999] ©1996 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I. Epistemology's End -- CHAPTER II. The Failure of Foundationalism -- CHAPTER III. Knowledge by Consensus -- CHAPTER IV. The Merits of Equilibrium -- CHAPTER V. The Heart Has Its Reasons -- CHAPTER VI. Shifting Focus -- CHAPTER VII. Epistemic Interdependence -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, foundationalism's heirs continue their forbears' quest, seeking security against epistemic misfortune, while their detractors typically espouse unbridled coherentism or facile relativism. Maintaining that neither stance is tenable, Catherine Elgin devises a via media between the absolute and the arbitrary, reconceiving the nature, goals, and methods of epistemology. In Considered Judgment, she argues for a reconception that takes reflective equilibrium as the standard of rational acceptability. A system of thought is in reflective equilibrium when its components are reasonable in light of one another, and the account they comprise is reasonable in light of our antecedent convictions about the subject it concerns. Many epistemologists now concede that certainty is a chimerical goal. But they continue to accept the traditional conception of epistemology's problematic. Elgin suggests that in abandoning the quest for certainty we gain opportunities for a broader epistemological purview--one that comprehends the arts and does justice to the sciences. She contends that metaphor, fiction, emotion, and exemplification often advance understanding in science as well as in art. The range of epistemology is broader and more variegated than is usually recognized. Tenable systems of thought are neither absolute nor arbitrary. Although they afford no guarantees, they are good in the way of belief. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Knowledge, Theory of. PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691005232 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822294 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400822294 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400822294.jpg |
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