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As if : idealization and ideals /

Idealization is a central feature of human thought. We build ideal models in the sciences, our politics is guided by pictures of impossible utopias, and our thinking about the arts and moral life is guided by images of how things might have been. In all these cases we sometimes proceed with a repres...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Appiah, Anthony (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Table des matières:
  • Useful untruths: lessons from Hans Vaihinger
  • A measure of belief: lessons from Frank Ramsey
  • Political ideals: lessons from John Rawls.