Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Israel Scheffler
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The inquiries here focus on truths: how truths are sought, what they express, and how they shape the worlds we inhabit. Consideration of these three topics highlights the interrelations of epistemology, symbolism, and metaphysics, all treated in a scientific spirit.
Scheffler's philosophy of knowledge incorporates several unfamiliar corollaries. Eschewing absolutism, the author nevertheless defends absolute truth; upholding systematic relativity, he also commends the ideal of objectivity; propounding his new doctrine of plurealism, he defends realism but rejects its usual concomitant monism, thus implying that we live not in one actual world but in many, all revealed by scientific investigation. Science itself, he holds, is not unitary in its motivation, but dual, spurred by two master impulses: the one to reduce, economize and systematize, the other to unsettle, explore and cultivate new areas for inquiry, an endless process belying the myth of a final theory of everything.
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- Title Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge
- Author Israel Scheffler
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication date 2009-04
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781405191708 / 1405191708
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (23.37 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
- Category Philosophy
- Library of Congress subjects Knowledge, Theory of
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008053935
- Dewey Decimal Code 121
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