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11 produkter
Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age
Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism
E-bok, 2021
424 kr
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It is commonly believed that populist politics and social media pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely that which is ''helpful'' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the …
Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age
Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism
E-bok, 2021
424 kr
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It is commonly believed that populist politics and social media pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely that which is ''helpful'' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the …
War, Pacifism, and Deterrence
A Pragmatist-Transcendental Perspective
E-bok, 2026
424 kr
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In our troubled times of global conflict, philosophical reflection on war and peace has never been more urgent. This distinctive contribution to the ethics of war combines pragmatism with Kantian-inspired transcendental philosophy to offer fresh insights into age-old questions of when, if ever, war …
War, Pacifism, and Deterrence
A Pragmatist-Transcendental Perspective
E-bok, 2026
424 kr
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In our troubled times of global conflict, philosophical reflection on war and peace has never been more urgent. This distinctive contribution to the ethics of war combines pragmatism with Kantian-inspired transcendental philosophy to offer fresh insights into age-old questions of when, if ever, war …
Pragmatism and Objectivity
Essays Sparked by the Work of Nicholas Rescher
E-bok, 2017
831 kr
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Pragmatism and Objectivity illuminates the nature of contemporary pragmatism against the background of Rescher’s work, resulting in a stronger grasp of the prospects and promises of this philosophical movement. The central insight of pragmatism is that we must start from where we find ourselves …
Approaching Truth
Essays in Honour of Ilkka Niiniluoto
Av Sami Pihlstrom, P. Raatikainen
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy
E-bok, 2023
1630 kr
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The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlström emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational. There is no way of even approaching, let alone …
Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness
Av Sari Kivisto, Sami Pihlstrom
E-bok, 2023
893 kr
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This book argues that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat them as genuinely other. The authors provide reasons to be critical of various attempts, many of them popular in our contemporary (Western) culture, to encourage deeper attachment to and …
Finitude, Illusion, and Sanity
A Pragmatic Naturalist Perspective on Transcendence and the Transcendental
E-bok, 2026
1785 kr
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This monograph investigates, from a distinctive philosophical perspective informed by pragmatism, the relation between the transcendental and the transcendent. It not only develops a viable form of pragmatic transcendental naturalism (which the author has defended in earlier works) but examines the …
Kantian Antitheodicy
Philosophical and Literary Varieties
Av Sari Kivisto, Sami Pihlstrom
E-bok, 2016
718 kr
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This book defends antitheodicism, arguing that theodicies, seeking to excuse God for evil and suffering in the world, fail to ethically acknowledge the victims of suffering. The authors argue for this view using literary and philosophical resources, commencing with Immanuel Kant’s 1791 “Theodicy …
Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism
Av Niels Weidtmann, Friedrich Stadler m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1459 kr
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This book explores the complexity of two philosophical traditions, extending from their origins to the current developments in neopragmatism. Chapters deal with the first encounters of these traditions and beyond, looking at metaphysics and the Vienna circle as well as semantics and the principle …
