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Author : Max Kölbel
Release : 2002
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 452/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Truth Without Objectivity by : Max Kölbel
Download or read book Truth Without Objectivity written by Max Kölbel. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory.
Author : Crispin Wright
Release : 2009-07-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 386/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Truth and Objectivity by : Crispin Wright
Download or read book Truth and Objectivity written by Crispin Wright. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of “realism” in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical “deflationary” conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, including the “deflationary” conception of truth, internal realist truth, scientific realism and the theoreticity of observation, and the role of moral states of affairs in explanations of moral beliefs.
Author : Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Release : 2016-02-12
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 008/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth by : Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Download or read book Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth written by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman. This book was released on 2016-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism. It examines four major philosophical theories in easy to understand terms while maintaining a critical insight which is fundamental to the contemporary study of journalism. The book aims to move forward the discussion of truth in the news media by dissecting commonly used concepts such as bias, objectivity, balance, fairness, in a philosophically-grounded way, drawing on in depth interviews with journalists to explore how journalists talk about truth.
Author : Lorraine Daston
Release : 2021-02-02
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 619/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Objectivity by : Lorraine Daston
Download or read book Objectivity written by Lorraine Daston. This book was released on 2021-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the concept differs from alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images. From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences — from anatomy to crystallography — are those featured in scientific atlases: the compendia that teach practitioners of a discipline what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Atlas images define the working objects of the sciences of the eye: snowflakes, galaxies, skeletons, even elementary particles. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology. As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity — or truth-to-nature or trained judgment — is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to any one interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity — and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.
Author : R. W. Newell
Release : 2016-05-10
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 659/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Objectivity, Empiricism and Truth by : R. W. Newell
Download or read book Objectivity, Empiricism and Truth written by R. W. Newell. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986. The clash between orthodox empiricism and a pragmatism inspired by Wittgenstein, William James, Thomas Kuhn and John Wisdom forms the background to the argument in this book. It shows how the theory of knowledge can be shaped around our actions without sacrificing reason's control over our beliefs.
