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Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge
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Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Israel Scheffler

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Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge explicates and builds upon a half century of philosophical work by the noted philosopher Israel Scheffler.
  • Propounds a new doctrine of plurealism which maintains the existence of multiple real worlds
  • Offers a defense of absolute truth, which denies certainty and eschews absolutism, and defends systematic relativity, objectivity, and fallibilism
  • Emphasizes a wide range of pragmatic interests: epistemology and scientific development, cognition and emotion, science and ethics, ritual and culture, and art and science

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Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge explicates and expands upon the formidable body of work by the author. Evincing a strong affinity for pragmatic philosophy as well as a dedication to analytical treatment of central problems, Israel Scheffler here provides an overview of his philosophy of knowledge, as developed in previous work and incorporating new views he has developed in recent thinking.

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)
  • 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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  • Choice, 10/01/2009, Page 0

About the author

Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University and serves as Scholar-in-Residence at the Mandel Center at Brandeis University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society. Among his various books are The Anatomy of Inquiry (1963), Science and Subjectivity (1967), Four Pragmatists (1974), Beyond the Letter (1979), and Symbolic Worlds: Art, Science, Language, Ritual (1997).

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