Elgin Considered Judgment

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2229-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Elgin, Catherine Z.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Ch. I Epistemology's End 3

Quarry 3

Perfect Procedural Epistemology 6

Imperfect Procedural Epistemology 10

Pure Procedural Epistemology 15

Approach 20

Ch. II The Failure of Foundationalism 21

Requirements 21

Blueprint 24

Strict Strictures 30

Lower Standards 35

Meaning 40

Causality 47

Subjunctive Support 51

Collapse 57

Ch. III Knowledge by Consensus 60

The Social Construction of Knowledge 60

Games People Play 61

Playing for Real 66

The Inquiry Game 70

Puzzle Solving 74

Widening the Field 79

Diverging Paths 84

Normalizing Relations 88

Does Charity End at Home? 91

Summing Up 93

What We Do 96

Two Concepts of Rules 98

Ch. IV The Merits of Equilibrium 101

Initial Tenability 101

Reflective Equilibrium 106

Going Public 111

Bootstrapping 120

Change in Focus: From Knowledge to Understanding 122

The Growth of Understanding 129

Judgment Calls 134

Deeper Conflicts 138

Restrictions on Relativism 143

Ch. V The Heart Has Its Reasons 146

Feelings 147

Frames of Mind 149

Tenability 156

Emotional Honesty 159

Classification 161

Emotion and the Range of Epistemology 167

Ch. VI Shifting Focus 170

Telling Instances 171

Learning from Examples 178

Fiction in Fact 183

Fiction's Feedback 186

What We Learn about What We Know 189

Getting Perspective 192

Tenable Fictions 195

Figurative Functions 196

Reconfiguration 200

Summing Up 204

Ch. VII Epistemic Interdependence 205

Verstehen 205

Language 208

Indeterminacy 214

Index 221

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Z. Elgin is Professor of the Philosophy of Education at Harvard University. Her books include With Reference to Reference and Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary. She coauthored Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences with Nelson Goodman.