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Reason, Truth, and Reality - Hardcover

Goldstick, Daniel

 
9780802095947: Reason, Truth, and Reality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802095941 ISBN 13: 9780802095947
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2009

Synopsis

Dan Goldstick's Reason, Truth, and Reality addresses two questions: what sort of world do we inhabit? and what moral obligations do we have? To answer the questions Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defense of pre-Kantian rationalism. Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning, he asks what must hold good for reason so characterized to be a dependable guide to truth.

The conclusions Goldstick draws are threefold. First of all, the argument points to continuous deterministic causality throughout space and time. In the second place, a case is made for universal impermanence. And thirdly, Goldstick claims to establish a basis for the right within a version of utilitarianism supporting the maximum long-term promotion of people's interests. The discussion takes in such traditional rationalist themes as aprioricity, conceivability, and antiscepticism, and such analytic topics as belief-and-desire, truthvaluelessness, and epistemic reliability.

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About the Author

Dan Goldstick is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802095941
ISBN 13 
9780802095947
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
400