| Description |
xviii, 393 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought |
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SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought / David Ray Griffin -- Why Do Epistemology? -- Knowing and the Requirements of Theory -- Knowing and the Variety of Life -- Knowing and Basic Contrasts -- Knowing and Being -- Knowing and Valuing -- Discovering The Epistemological Gap -- Ancient Knowers -- Plato and His Predecessors -- Aristotle and His Successors -- Medieval Believers -- Augustine -- Between Augustine and Aquinas -- Thomas Aquinas -- Scotus and Ockham -- Modern Doubters -- Hobbes and Descartes -- Locke and Berkeley -- Hume and Kant -- Coping With the Epistemological Gap -- Reducing the Gap -- Intuitions of a World -- Fichte and Hegel -- Comte and Mill -- Mach and Ayer -- Problems with Reduction -- Webbing the Gap -- The Coherentist Pedigree -- F.H. Bradley -- Brand Blanshard -- Problems with Coherentism -- Leaping the Gap -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Reflecting on Kierkegaard -- C.S. Peirce and William James -- Problems with the Leap -- Deconstruction the Epistemological Gap -- Experiencing the World -- The Postmodern Turn -- Physical Continuities in Experience -- Conceptual Continuities in Experience -- Experience: Spectra and Bipolarities -- Bipolar Experience: Some Benefits -- Thinking the World -- The Phases of Concrescence -- The Path to Conceptual Thinking -- Defining the True -- Knowing the World -- Practical Knowing -- Observational Knowing -- Theoretical Knowing -- The Knowing of Beauty and the Beauty of Knowing. |
| Summary |
Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief, immediately fell prey to excesses of doubt. This book points toward a postmodern approach to knowing that moves beyond the tired choice between dogma and skepticism. Its key deconstructive aim is to help contemporary philosophers see that their paralyzing modern "epistemological gap" is a myth. Its positive outcome, however, reverses the identification of "postmodern" with deconstruction rather than construction, with the "end of philosophy" rather than renewal in philosophy. |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Postmodernism.
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Teoría del conocimiento.
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Postmodernismo.
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Knowledge, Theory of. (OCoLC)fst00988194
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Postmodernism. (OCoLC)fst01073164
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Erkenntnistheorie. (DE-588)4070914-0
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Postmoderne. (DE-588)4115604-3
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| ISBN |
0791439895 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper) |
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9780791439890 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper) |
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0791439909 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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9780791439906 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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