Common Grounds Foundations Pragmatic by Mathies David (7 results)

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Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Common Grounds without Foundations, David Kratz Mathies offers an alternative, fallibilist model of moral reasoning rooted in the American Pragmatic tradition. Additional resources drawn from Chinese philosophy, Jain epistemology, modern philosophy of mathematics, and the Gadamerian hermeneutical tradition serve both to corroborate the argumentation and to provide examples of continuities in reasoning that cross the boundaries of disparate traditions. Ironically, the very success of arguments for the tradition-dependent nature of rationality belies their conclusions-even religious claims make their appeal with some level of public reason-and a nonfoundationalist theory of knowledge more accurately reflects both our scientific progress and our projects of everyday enquiry. Ultimately, an analysis of our best epistemic practices provides us with prima facie biases in favor of both diversity and free speech (without the need to appeal to any tradition-dependent axioms like inherent worth, human dignity, or the possession of a soul)-to be concretized in institutions like human rights and democracy. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Common Grounds without Foundations | A Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Disagreements Across Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Traditions | David Kratz Mathies | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2015 | Gorgias Press LLC | EAN 9781607240426 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …