Knowing and value :
Ferré, Frederick.
Knowing and value : toward a constructive postmodern epistemology / Frederick Ferré. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998. - xviii, 393 p. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought . - SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-380) and indexes.
Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought / Why Do Epistemology? Knowing and the Requirements of Theory. Knowing and the Variety of Life. Knowing and Basic Contrasts. Knowing and Being. Knowing and Valuing -- Ancient Knowers. Plato and His Predecessors. Aristotle and His Successors -- Medieval Believers. Augustine. Between Augustine and Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas. Scotus and Ockham -- Modern Doubters. Hobbes and Descartes. Locke and Berkeley. Hume and Kant -- Reducing the Gap. Intuitions of a World. Fichte and Hegel. Comte and Mill. Mach and Ayer. Problems with Reduction -- Webbing the Gap. The Coherentist Pedigree. F. H. Bradley. Brand Blanshard. Problems with Coherentism -- Leaping the Gap. Soren Kierkegaard. Reflecting on Kierkegaard. C. S. Peirce and William James. Problems with the Leap -- Experiencing the World. The Postmodern Turn. Physical Continuities in Experience. David Ray Griffin -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Conceptual Continuities in Experience. Experience: Spectra and Bipolarities. Bipolar Experience: Some Benefits -- Thinking the World. The Phases of Concrescence. The Path to Conceptual Thinking. Defining the True -- Knowing the World. Practical Knowing. Observational Knowing. Theoretical Knowing. The Knowing of Beauty and the Beauty of Knowing. 9. 10.
Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief, immediately fell prey to excesses of doubt. This book points toward a postmodern approach to knowing that moves beyond the tired choice between dogma and skepticism. Its key deconstructive aim is to help contemporary philosophers see that their paralyzing modern "epistemological gap" is a myth. Its positive outcome, however, reverses the identification of "postmodern" with deconstruction rather than construction, with the "end of philosophy" rather than renewal in philosophy.
0791439895 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0791439909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
98014887
Knowledge, Theory of.
Postmodernism.
BD161 / .F39 1998
121
Knowing and value : toward a constructive postmodern epistemology / Frederick Ferré. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998. - xviii, 393 p. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought . - SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-380) and indexes.
Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought / Why Do Epistemology? Knowing and the Requirements of Theory. Knowing and the Variety of Life. Knowing and Basic Contrasts. Knowing and Being. Knowing and Valuing -- Ancient Knowers. Plato and His Predecessors. Aristotle and His Successors -- Medieval Believers. Augustine. Between Augustine and Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas. Scotus and Ockham -- Modern Doubters. Hobbes and Descartes. Locke and Berkeley. Hume and Kant -- Reducing the Gap. Intuitions of a World. Fichte and Hegel. Comte and Mill. Mach and Ayer. Problems with Reduction -- Webbing the Gap. The Coherentist Pedigree. F. H. Bradley. Brand Blanshard. Problems with Coherentism -- Leaping the Gap. Soren Kierkegaard. Reflecting on Kierkegaard. C. S. Peirce and William James. Problems with the Leap -- Experiencing the World. The Postmodern Turn. Physical Continuities in Experience. David Ray Griffin -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Conceptual Continuities in Experience. Experience: Spectra and Bipolarities. Bipolar Experience: Some Benefits -- Thinking the World. The Phases of Concrescence. The Path to Conceptual Thinking. Defining the True -- Knowing the World. Practical Knowing. Observational Knowing. Theoretical Knowing. The Knowing of Beauty and the Beauty of Knowing. 9. 10.
Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief, immediately fell prey to excesses of doubt. This book points toward a postmodern approach to knowing that moves beyond the tired choice between dogma and skepticism. Its key deconstructive aim is to help contemporary philosophers see that their paralyzing modern "epistemological gap" is a myth. Its positive outcome, however, reverses the identification of "postmodern" with deconstruction rather than construction, with the "end of philosophy" rather than renewal in philosophy.
0791439895 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0791439909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
98014887
Knowledge, Theory of.
Postmodernism.
BD161 / .F39 1998
121