Objectivity: Recovering Determinate Reality in Philosophy, Science, and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780815390770 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 131 str.

Tibor R. Machan

Opis

Objectivity stands in need of a defence because it is a difficult ideal to serve, especially in an era of multiculturalism, deconstructionism, feminism, and diversity. This book considers and responds to these and similar challenges to objectivity.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Why will nothing but objective truth do?; Part I Philosophy: Reflections on Richard Rorty; C.S. Peirce and absolute truth. Part II Science: Thomas Kuhn and the objectivity of science; Kuhn and the moral dimension of objectivity. Part III Everyday Life: The nature of objective moral claims; Journalistic objectivity, true and false; Richard Posner's pragmatic jurisprudence; Terrorism and objective moral principles; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Tibor R. Machan