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Sometimes always true : undogmatic pluralism in politics, metaphysics, and epistemology /

This title aims to resolve three connected problems. First, we need an undogmatic pluralist standpoint in political theory, epistemology, and metaphysics. But genuine pluralism suffers from the contradiction that making room for fundamental differences in outlook means making room for outlooks that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barris, Jeremy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparing different cultural or theoretical frameworks: Davidson, Rorty, and the nature of truth
  • An internal connection between logic and rhetoric, between frameworks, and a legitimate foundation for knowledge
  • Pluralism, legitimate self-contradiction, and a proposed solution to some shared fundamental problems of political and mainstream epistemology
  • The logic of genuine political pluralism and Oscar Wilde's artificiality of wit and style
  • Foucault's pluralism and the possibility of truth and of ideology critique
  • How to be properly unnatural: the metaphysics of heterosexual normativity and the importance of concepts of essence and nature for pluralism
  • The necessary inconclusiveness of Heideggerian interpretation of metaphysics and the undecided nature of essential or logical connection
  • The formal structure of metaphysics and the Importance of being Earnest
  • The logical structure of dreams and their relation to reality
  • Coda: overview.