Bridges to the world : : a dialogue on the construction of knowledge, education, and truth /

Bridges to the world : : a dialogue on the construction of knowledge, education, and truth / / David Kenneth Johnson and Matthew R. Silliman.

Do our thoughts and claims about the world give us rational access to the way the world really is? Can subjective experience ever provide a basis for grasping objec­tive truth? These perennial philosophical questions reach to the heart of every human endeavor, from education to science to everyday,...

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Johnson, David Kenneth,
Silliman, Matthew R., 1956-
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Silliman, Matthew R., 1956-
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Query to Bridges
  • A Point of Departure
  • The Dance of Knowledge
  • Knowledge and its Objects
  • Hypothesis and Reality
  • A Rock in Itself
  • Mapping the Territory
  • Pedagogy and Pragmatism
  • Toleration and Truth
  • Fallibility and Skepticism
  • Believing and Knowing
  • Formalizing the Argument
  • Equivocation on Independence
  • Fitness and Correspondence
  • The Reality of the Subject
  • Ontological Agnosticism and Solipsism
  • Poetry in Action
  • Constructivist Realism
  • Reply to Govier
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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