A01=Kai Nielsen
analytic philosophy
Animal Kingdom
antifoundationalism
Assertorial Function
Assess Knowledge Claims
Author_Kai Nielsen
Category=QD
contemporary philosophy
continental philosophy
Core Errors
Descriptive Explanatory Theory
Edifying Philosophy
end-of-philosophy debate
epistemic relativism
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Evaluative Truisms
Foundationalist Epistemology
hermeneutics in social theory
Hinge Beliefs
Ideal Observer Theory
Initial Justification
Language Game
Modest Foundationalism
Moore's Propositions
Moral Principles
Narrow Reflective Equilibrium
Philosopher Qua Philosopher
philosophy of knowledge debates
Platonic Realism
Platonic-Cartesian-Kantian tradition
Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
Primitive Certainties
Reflective Equilibrium
Rorty's Account
Rorty's critique
Traditional Analytic Philosophy
wide reflective equilibrium
WRE
Product details
- ISBN 9780367015831
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This ambitious book addresses the "end-of-philosophy" debate and the challenge it presents to contemporary philosophy, both continental and analytic. It is a chain of argument as well as a conversation conducted in the presence of the major contributors to that debate: the critics (especially Richard Rorty) of the dominantly Platonic-Cartesian-Kantian tradition on the one hand and its defenders on the other. Nielsen's account draws on Wittgenstein, Quine, Davidson, Habermas, and Foucault, among others. Nielsen takes Rorty's arguments seriously and insists that they demand a rethinking of the role of philosophy in a world in which the claims of relativism, nihilism, and historicism loom increasingly larger. But, unlike most who are impressed with the end-of-philosophy argument, he provides an original and constructive response: the development of a holistic, antifoundationalist account of philosophy that utilizes a form of critical theory and wide reflective equilibrium in carving out a positive role for a new kind of philosophy. This is an important book not just for philosophers but tor social theorists, for literary critics, and indeed for scholars in any field in which the status of knowledge has become problematic.
