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Epistemology or theory of knowledge has always been one of the most
important -if not the most important -field of philosophy. New
arguments are constantly brought to bear on old views, new variants
are marshalled to revive ancient stands, new concepts and
distinctions increase the sophistication of epistemogical theories.
There are a great many excellent textbooks, monographs as well as
anthologies consisting of articles in epistemology. Similarly,
there are useful philosophical dictionaries which contain a great
number of relatively short entries, and general philosophical
handbooks which also touch epistemological issues. This volume of
27 essays grew out from the interest to see a handbook which is
devoted entirely to the historical roots and systematic development
of theory of knowledge. It is not intended to compete but to
supplement the already existing literature. It aims at giving both
beginners and more advanced students as well as professionals in
epistemology and other areas of philosophy an overview of the
central problems and solutions of epistemology. The essays are
self-contained and stil often rather extensive discussions of the
chosen aspects of knowledge. The contributions presuppose very
little familiarity with previous literature and only a few of them
require the mastery of even elementary logical notation. This, we
hope, makes the volume also accessible to the philosophically
interested wider audience. The contributors were asked to provide
substantial, up-to-date, self-contained and balanced surveys of the
various subareas and more specific topics of epistemology, with
reference to literature.
Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading
representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of
mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature
of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science.
Practical reason, reasons and causes in action theory, intending
and trying, and folk-psychological explanation are some of the
topics discussed by these leading participants. A particular
emphasis is laid on trust, commitments and social institutions, on
the possibility of grounding social notions in individual social
attitudes, on the nature of social groups, institutions and
collective intentionality, and on common belief and common
knowledge. Applications to the social sciences include, e.g., a
look at the Erklaren-Verstehen controversy in economics, and at
constructivist and realist views on archeological reconstructions
of the past."
Epistemology or theory of knowledge has always been one of the most
important -if not the most important -field of philosophy. New
arguments are constantly brought to bear on old views, new variants
are marshalled to revive ancient stands, new concepts and
distinctions increase the sophistication of epistemogical theories.
There are a great many excellent textbooks, monographs as well as
anthologies consisting of articles in epistemology. Similarly,
there are useful philosophical dictionaries which contain a great
number of relatively short entries, and general philosophical
handbooks which also touch epistemological issues. This volume of
27 essays grew out from the interest to see a handbook which is
devoted entirely to the historical roots and systematic development
of theory of knowledge. It is not intended to compete but to
supplement the already existing literature. It aims at giving both
beginners and more advanced students as well as professionals in
epistemology and other areas of philosophy an overview of the
central problems and solutions of epistemology. The essays are
self-contained and stil often rather extensive discussions of the
chosen aspects of knowledge. The contributions presuppose very
little familiarity with previous literature and only a few of them
require the mastery of even elementary logical notation. This, we
hope, makes the volume also accessible to the philosophically
interested wider audience. The contributors were asked to provide
substantial, up-to-date, self-contained and balanced surveys of the
various subareas and more specific topics of epistemology, with
reference to literature.
Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading
representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of
mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature
of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science.
Practical reason, reasons and causes in action theory, intending
and trying, and folk-psychological explanation are some of the
topics discussed by these leading participants. A particular
emphasis is laid on trust, commitments and social institutions, on
the possibility of grounding social notions in individual social
attitudes, on the nature of social groups, institutions and
collective intentionality, and on common belief and common
knowledge. Applications to the social sciences include, e.g., a
look at the Erklaren-Verstehen controversy in economics, and at
constructivist and realist views on archeological reconstructions
of the past."
Man by nature desires to know, and the most natural way of
satisfying this desire is to find answers to the questions that
arise from wonder and perplexity. Questioning is our default view
of method. I was turned into a cornerstone of western thought in
the Socratic elenchus and Aristotles doctrine of explanation and
inquiry. Aristotles dialogical games, especially as they find
expression in Topics, survived medieval dialectical games and had a
profound impact on practices in academic life. And even when
Aristotelianism came under fire during the renaissance and the
Scientific Revolution, questioning as method was not jettisoned but
rather transformed into a new form in which the questions were to
be addressed to Nature herself. Questioning is not just a method
but also a philosophy in its own right. Man not only desires to
know, but wonder and perplexity are at the very heart of mans
essence. As Karl- Otto Apel persuasively argues, Gadamers Truth and
Method was not just, or perhaps even mainly, a methodological
insight into how knowledge was to be obtained. Rather, in
philosophical hermeneutics questioning has a more profound
standing, marking, as Apel puts it, "logos-reflection" and hence
dialogue in the full sense. This collection of essays by leading
philosophers probes questioning as philosophy and as method both
from a historical and a systematic perspective. The authors include
J. Hintikka, P. Aubenque, R. Smith, M.-L. Kakkuri-Knuuttila, E.
Moutsopoulos, T. Calvo Martinez, M. Yrjonsuuri, J.-F. Courtine,
K.-O. Appel, V. A. Lektorsky, G. Schurz, M. Sintonen, and W.
Rabinowicz & L. Bovens
Ilkka Niiniluoto, a distinguished philosopher of science, has been
a tirelesspokesman for scientific realism and reason more
generally. Trained in the tradition of the Finnish school of
inductive logic he has refined the notion of truthlikeness
(verisimilitude) to make the realist idea scientific progress
mathematically exact. Niiniluotos main technical works are included
in his books Is Science Progressive? (1984) and Truthlikeness
(1987), but his most recent general defense of scientific realism
culminated in his Critical Scientific Realism (1999). Niiniluoto
is, since 1981, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the
University of Helsinki, and since 2003 the Rector of the
University. He has for a long time been one of the most prominent
public intellectuals in Finland. This Festschrift brings about a
selection of philosophical essays on Niiniluotos philosophy by
prominent member of the international community. The contributions
are grouped around three themes. The first ones deal with
philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy
of mathematics, and the second group consists of papers on
induction, truthlikeness, and scientific progress. The third part
collects essays on the history of logical empiricism, the ontology
of social groups, and the dispute between theism and atheism. This
book is a tribute to Ilkka Niiniluoto on his 60th birthday, and it
also contains Niiniluoto's replies to comments, queries and
criticisms.
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