Vagaries of Value

Basic Issues in Value Theory

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
9781412854603 (ISBN)

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Pragmatism's founder, C. S. Peirce, initially envisioned philosophy as a means of rationally validating our beliefs and actions. Afterward, William James changed pragmatism into a way of undermining commitment to rational cogency. With the subsequent turn of various contemporary pragmatisms to relativism and subjectivism, such irrational tendencies have become still more prominent.

Vagaries of Value aims to create a version of realistic and rationalistic pragmatism that is systemically viable and does justice to traditional pragmatism's salient insights. Nicholas Rescher strives to return pragmatism to its realistic and objectivistic roots in a detailed survey of issues across the whole board of philosophical thought, action, and evaluation.

Rescher argues that the crisis of pragmatism created by today's subjective tendencies should be met by adopting not a revisionary, but a reconstructive understanding of pragmatism, keeping close to its Peircean roots. He argues that such a turning does not mitigate against the pragmatic program's practical orientation, but provides an opportunity for sharpening our understanding of how pragmatism can and should be developed.

Nicholas Rescher, distinguished university professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, is currently chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style in a productive research career extending over six decades and is a prolific author of books in all areas of philosophy.

Preface

1 On Evaluation
2 The Rationality of Values and Evaluations (Against the Humean Conception of Reason)
3 Is Reasoning about Values Viciously Circular?
4 The Fallacy of Respect Neglect
5 Multiaspectival Evaluation
6 On the Evaluation of Claims and Assertions
7 On Excellence
8 Levels of Optimality (Best for Me versus Best for Us)
9 Axiological Neutrality (Value Exclusion [Wertfreiheit] and Value Neutrality in Science)
10 On World Improvement

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Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-13	9781412854603 / 9781412854603
Zustand	Neuware