Lauri Snellman

An Essay in the Logic of World-views (eBook, PDF)

Knowledge and Belief-Systems in a Dialogue of Practical Frameworks

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a logic of world-views: belief-systems that shape how we know, interpret, and act in the world. It explores how these frameworks function as sign-systems, models of reality, and normative guides for thought and behavior. This book starts with epistemological issues, like the faith/reason-debates, relativism, and the Gettier problem. It shows, how they reflect deeper questions about the role of belief-systems in knowledge. This book then offers a conceptual structure of semiotics, practices of seeking and finding, frameworks and pragmatic circles of inquiry for understanding how world-views operate through trust, vision, faithfulness, and assent. It argues that world-views are not just abstract theories but lived frameworks, guiding practices and shaping responses to reality. It proposes ways to compare and assess incommensurable world-views through dialogue. Bridging philosophical logic, semiotics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion, this book provides a new foundation for understanding belief-systems and tools for world-view studies.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 6
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032045423
• Artikelnr.: 75791930

Autorenporträt

Lauri Snellman (ThD, University of Helsinki, 2020) is a philosopher. His research interests include the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and pragmatism. He has researched the problem of evil at Helsinki, and the logic of world-views at Helsinki and Uppsala Universitet. Author of Evil and Intelligibility (Leiden: Brill, 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: World-views and the problem of mediated knowledge.- Chapter 3: The logic of world-views.- Chapter 4: Outline for the logic of world-views.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.- Chapter 6: Sources.