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Fear of Knowledge - Against Relativism and Constructivism (Hardcover)
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Fear of Knowledge - Against Relativism and Constructivism (Hardcover)
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Relativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge
have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world in
recent times. In his long-awaited first book, Paul Boghossian
critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental flaws.
Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim
that knowledge is socially constructed--one as a thesis about truth
and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The
intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way the world is
that is independent of human opinion; and that we are capable of
arriving at beliefs about how it is that are objectively
reasonable, binding on anyone capable of appreciating the relevant
evidence regardless of their social or cultural perspective.
Difficult as these notions may be, it is a mistake to think that
philosophy has uncovered powerful reasons for rejecting them.
This short, lucid, witty book shows that philosophy provides
rock-solid support for common sense against the relativists. It
will prove provocative reading throughout the discipline and
beyond.
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