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Knowledge and Reality - An Essay in Positive Philosophy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)
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Knowledge and Reality - An Essay in Positive Philosophy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 59
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The current debate in philosophy of science and epistemology is
characterised by some strong oppositions, such as those between
instrumentalism and scientific realism, methodological anarchism
and critical rationalism, historical contextualism and metaphysical
realism, naturalism and normativism. By means of a close
interaction between historical research and theoretical
perspective, this book aims to develop a third way' between
absolutism and radical relativism. This new conception is called
positive' because it is linked to the basic features of the esprit
positif empiricism, moderate epistemic relativism, and
non-metaphysical objectivism. This book revives the early twentieth
century controversy between the immanent and transcendent
conception of the object of knowledge, and offers a new
interpretation of the relationships between Logical Positivism,
Kantian thought, and conventionalist philosophy of science.
According to the author, such a positive philosophy' is able to
counter the conversational' and post-modern attacks on objectivity
and truth. Knowledge and Reality presents an original view of the
status and role of philosophy, spelling out the intrinsic
limitations of the analytic approach, together with the reasons
that induce the author to place himself within that tradition.
Audience: Libraries and research workers in epistemology,
philosophy of science, metaphysics, history of philosophy and
history of science, and philosophy of language.
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