Reason, Truth and Reality / / Daniel Goldstick.

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• VerfasserIn: Goldstick, Daniel ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Part One: Introductory --; 1. Introduction --; 2. On Moore's Paradox --; 3. On Factuality --; 4. On the Canons of Deductive Inference --; 5. Preliminary Assault on the Philosophy of Empiricism --; Part Two: On the Canons of Induction --; 6. Preliminary Considerations --; 7. Sensationalism --; 8. Naturalism --; 9. Inductivism --; 10. Pragmatism --; 11. Nihilism, Scepticism, and Decisionism --; 12. Possibility, Probability, Negation, and Change --; 13. Causality and Impermanence --; 14. Simplicity --; 15. How to Reason Inductively --; 16. The Case for Universal Impermanence --; 17. That Determinism Is Incontrovertible --; 18. The Pitfall of Metaphysics --; Part Three: On the Canons of Morality --; 19. Preliminary Considerations --; 20. Sensationalism --; 21. Naturalism --; 22. Inductivism --; 23. Pragmatism --; 24. Nihilism, Scepticism, and Decisionism --; 25. Ethics and Induction --; 26. Mores --; 27. 'Consciencelessness' --; 28. Utility --; 29. Comparing Utilities --; 30. Population --; 31. 'Hypocrisy' Stipulatively Defined --; 32. Utilitarianism Proved --; 33. Conclusion: We Each Sit in Judgment --; Appendix 1: 'Tautology' --; Appendix 2: 'Desire' --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442689855; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442689855
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel Goldstick.

Dan Goldstick's Reason, Truth, and Reality addresses two questions: what sort of world do we inhabit? and what moral obligations do we have? To answer the questions Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defense of pre-Kantian rationalism. Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning, he asks what must hold good for reason so characterized to be a dependable guide to truth. The conclusions Goldstick draws are threefold. First of all, the argument points to continuous deterministic causality throughout space and time. In the second place, a case is made for universal impermanence. And thirdly, Goldstick claims to establish a basis for the right within a version of utilitarianism supporting the maximum long-term promotion of people's interests. The discussion takes in such traditional rationalist themes as aprioricity, conceivability, and antiscepticism, and such analytic topics as belief-and-desire, truthvaluelessness, and epistemic reliability.