ARRUPE JESUIT UNIVERSITY

CORONAVIRUS -STOP THE SPREAD - CLEAN,DISINFECT,COVER
Image from Google Jackets

Knowing and value : toward a constructive postmodern epistemology / Frederick Ferré.

By: Material type: TextSeries: SUNY series in constructive postmodern thoughtPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.Description: xviii, 393 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0791439895 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0791439909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121 21
LOC classification:
  • BD161 .F39 1998
Contents:
Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought / David Ray Griffin -- 1. 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 -- 2. Ancient Knowers. Plato and His Predecessors. Aristotle and His Successors -- 3. Medieval Believers. Augustine. Between Augustine and Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas. Scotus and Ockham -- 4. Modern Doubters. Hobbes and Descartes. Locke and Berkeley. Hume and Kant -- 5. Reducing the Gap. Intuitions of a World. Fichte and Hegel. Comte and Mill. Mach and Ayer. Problems with Reduction -- 6. Webbing the Gap. The Coherentist Pedigree. F. H. Bradley. Brand Blanshard. Problems with Coherentism -- 7. Leaping the Gap. Soren Kierkegaard. Reflecting on Kierkegaard. C. S. Peirce and William James. Problems with the Leap -- 8. Experiencing the World. The Postmodern Turn. Physical Continuities in Experience.
Conceptual Continuities in Experience. Experience: Spectra and Bipolarities. Bipolar Experience: Some Benefits -- 9. Thinking the World. The Phases of Concrescence. The Path to Conceptual Thinking. Defining the True -- 10. Knowing the World. Practical Knowing. Observational Knowing. Theoretical Knowing. The Knowing of Beauty and the Beauty of Knowing.
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Cover image Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Vol info URL Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds Item hold queue priority Course reserves
Monograph ( Printed materials) ARRUPE LIBRARY Main Collection Main Collection BD161 .F39 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 46500004431
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-380) and indexes.

Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought / David Ray Griffin -- 1. 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 -- 2. Ancient Knowers. Plato and His Predecessors. Aristotle and His Successors -- 3. Medieval Believers. Augustine. Between Augustine and Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas. Scotus and Ockham -- 4. Modern Doubters. Hobbes and Descartes. Locke and Berkeley. Hume and Kant -- 5. Reducing the Gap. Intuitions of a World. Fichte and Hegel. Comte and Mill. Mach and Ayer. Problems with Reduction -- 6. Webbing the Gap. The Coherentist Pedigree. F. H. Bradley. Brand Blanshard. Problems with Coherentism -- 7. Leaping the Gap. Soren Kierkegaard. Reflecting on Kierkegaard. C. S. Peirce and William James. Problems with the Leap -- 8. Experiencing the World. The Postmodern Turn. Physical Continuities in Experience.

Conceptual Continuities in Experience. Experience: Spectra and Bipolarities. Bipolar Experience: Some Benefits -- 9. Thinking the World. The Phases of Concrescence. The Path to Conceptual Thinking. Defining the True -- 10. Knowing the World. Practical Knowing. Observational Knowing. Theoretical Knowing. The Knowing of Beauty and the Beauty of Knowing.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

 

Arrupe Library. PO Box MP320 Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
263 242 745411|librarian@aju.ac.zw