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- Antifoundationalism
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
"[The book] illuminate[s] the philosophical urge to attain certainty and system, and especially system that is based on certain and indubitable ground. The historical approach works well.... This collection makes no pretensions, yet manages to deliver important contributions to the continuing inquiry."
--John Lachs, Vanderbilt University
The debate over foundationalism, the viewpoint that there exists some secure foundation upon which to build a system of knowledge, appears to have been resolved and the antifoundationalists have at least temporarily prevailed. From a firmly historical approach, the book traces the foundationalism/antifoundationalism controversy in the work of many important figures--Animaxander, Aristotle and Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Hegel and Nietzsche, Habermas and Chisholm, and others--throughout the history of philosophy. The contributors, Joseph Margolis, Ronald Polansky, Gary Calore, Fred and Emily Michael, William Wurzer, Charlene Haddock Siegfried, Sandra B. Rosenthal, Kathleen Wallace, and the editors present well the diversity, interest, and roots of antifoundationalism.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. vii-x
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-12
- Two. Foundationalism in Plato?
- pp. 41-56
- Four. Hierarchy and Early Empiricism
- pp. 85-104
- Six. Nietzsche and the Problem of Ground
- pp. 127-142
- Nine. Metaphysics without Mirrors
- pp. 189-208
- Ten. Metaphysics and Validation
- pp. 209-238
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 239-242
- INDEX OF NAMES
- pp. 243-246
- INDEX OF TITLES
- pp. 247-251
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439900932
Related ISBN(s)
9780877228813
MARC Record
OCLC
316066727
Pages
262
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1991