Frank D. Schubert

A Modest Certainty (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The central problem of philosophy is the problem of certainty. What does it mean to be sure? Are there ideas beyond the possibility of error or refutation? What does it mean for a notion to be incorrigible? In this book, Frank D. Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. Schubert proposes a common standard for assessing certainty - the certainty of knowing one's own personal proper name - as a standard that can establish common ground within each widely disparate area. The result is a new "philosophy in a grand manner" and a powerful ethical proposal for our time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761888789
• Artikelnr.: 75138215

Autorenporträt

Frank D. Schubert holds degrees in philosophy and religion from the University of San Francisco and the University of Oxford and received his Ph.D. under Peter L. Berger at Boston University in 1987. Schubert's philosophical interests address how certainties are created and how they are sustained by individuals and communities over time.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Plato to Russell
Plato
Aristotle
Medieval Nominalism: Abelard and Ockham
Descartes
Enlightenment "nominalism": Hobbes, Locke, Reid, Hume
Kant
Mill and Frege
Russell
II. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Wittgenstein to Brandom
Wittgenstein
Godel, Carnap and Ayer
Quine
Kripke
Searle
Brandom
III. Religious Certainty
Religious Facts
The Illative Sense
Testimony
Composite
Judgment
IV. Political Certainty
Tacit
Normative Inclusion
Juxtaposition
Metanarrative
Citizen
Spells
V. Familial/Tribal Certainty
Socialization
Grice
Gettier
Grue
De Re and De Dicto
Aggregated Knowledge as Home
Spells (Again)
VI. Scientific Certainty
Maps and Posits
Characterizations
Negative-Free Characterizations
Scientific Characterizations
Natural, Aqueous and "Filled-In" Kinds
Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend
Communities of Tacit Knowledge
VII. Certainty As We Understand It
Reason-Exchanging Practices
Problematic Background/Inventory
Perfect and Imperfect Characterizations
As We Understand It