Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: Is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another?
Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: Is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another?
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He was Edna J. Doury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1990 was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is the author of The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and the best-selling Think and Being Good, among other books.
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Preface Introduction CHAPTER 1: FAITH, BELIEF AND REASON 1: Clifford's Duties 23: Fiction and MythJames 4: Kinds of Animation CHAPTER 2: MAN THE MEASURE 1: Turning the Tables: the Recoil Argument 2: Modern Judo 3: The Variation of Subjectives 4: The Moving Bull's-eye 5: Doing it Ourselves CHAPTER 3: ISHMAEL'S PROBLEM AND THE DELIGHTS OF KEEPING QUIET 1: Who Tell the Tale? 2: A Gestalt Switch 3: You Tell Me, or Down with Pilate 4: Moral Relativism 5: Man the Measurer 6: Summary CHAPTER 4: NIETZCHE: THE ARCH DEBUNKER 1: Facts or Interpretations? 2: Twilight of the Idols 3: Perspectivism 4: Adequate Words 5: Heraclitus and the Flux 6: The Darwinian Element CHAPTER 5: THE POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY 1: Getting Puzzled 2: Four Responses 3: Eliminativism 4: Realism 5: Deconstructing the Issue 6: The Constructivist Corner 7: The Example of Wittgenstein CHAPTER 6: OBSERVATION AND TRUTH: FROM LOCKE TO RORTY 1: Paradise Lost 2: First Impressions 3: Holism 4: Davidson's Mantle 5: Rorty's Talking World 6: Keeping our Feet on the Ground 7: Interlude: Law, Tennis, and the Coffee-house 8: A Political Message CHAPTER 7: REALISM AS SCIENCE; REALISM ABOUT SCIENCE 1: No Miracles 2: Science Red in Tooth and Claw 3: Explaining from Within 4: Animation and Belief Again 5: Underdetermination CHAPTER 8: HISTORIANS AND OTHERS 1: Conceptual Schemes 2: Mind Reading 3: Mirroring 4: Infirmities 5: Collectives and their Histories 6: Peace Breaks Out Notes Index
Preface Introduction CHAPTER 1: FAITH, BELIEF AND REASON 1: Clifford's Duties 23: Fiction and MythJames 4: Kinds of Animation CHAPTER 2: MAN THE MEASURE 1: Turning the Tables: the Recoil Argument 2: Modern Judo 3: The Variation of Subjectives 4: The Moving Bull's-eye 5: Doing it Ourselves CHAPTER 3: ISHMAEL'S PROBLEM AND THE DELIGHTS OF KEEPING QUIET 1: Who Tell the Tale? 2: A Gestalt Switch 3: You Tell Me, or Down with Pilate 4: Moral Relativism 5: Man the Measurer 6: Summary CHAPTER 4: NIETZCHE: THE ARCH DEBUNKER 1: Facts or Interpretations? 2: Twilight of the Idols 3: Perspectivism 4: Adequate Words 5: Heraclitus and the Flux 6: The Darwinian Element CHAPTER 5: THE POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY 1: Getting Puzzled 2: Four Responses 3: Eliminativism 4: Realism 5: Deconstructing the Issue 6: The Constructivist Corner 7: The Example of Wittgenstein CHAPTER 6: OBSERVATION AND TRUTH: FROM LOCKE TO RORTY 1: Paradise Lost 2: First Impressions 3: Holism 4: Davidson's Mantle 5: Rorty's Talking World 6: Keeping our Feet on the Ground 7: Interlude: Law, Tennis, and the Coffee-house 8: A Political Message CHAPTER 7: REALISM AS SCIENCE; REALISM ABOUT SCIENCE 1: No Miracles 2: Science Red in Tooth and Claw 3: Explaining from Within 4: Animation and Belief Again 5: Underdetermination CHAPTER 8: HISTORIANS AND OTHERS 1: Conceptual Schemes 2: Mind Reading 3: Mirroring 4: Infirmities 5: Collectives and their Histories 6: Peace Breaks Out Notes Index
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