Scheffler, Israel
Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge
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Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge explicates and builds upon a half century of philosophical work by the noted philosopher Israel Scheffler.
- Propounds a new doctrine of plurealism which maintains the existence of multiple real worlds
- Offers a defense of absolute truth, which denies certainty and eschews absolutism, and defends systematic relativity, objectivity, and fallibilism
- Emphasizes a wide range of pragmatic interests: epistemology and scientific development, cognition and emotion, science and ethics, ritual and culture, and art and science
Keywords: philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, symbolism, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, systematic relativity, objectivity, fallibilism, cognition, emotion, ethics, ritual, culture, art, plurealism, pragmatism, truth, Epistemology, Epistemology
- Author(s)
- Scheffler, Israel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 168 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444310931
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405191708
