Worlds of truth
Subtitle: a philosophy of knowledge
By: by Israel Scheffler.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781405191708
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Justification, truth, worlds; title: Justification; title: Belief; title: Access to truth; title: Cogito ergo sum; title: Mathematical certainty; title: Classical logic; title: C.I. Lewis' empiricism; title: Access as a metaphor; title: J.F. Fies and K. Popper; title: Voluntarism and linearity; title: One-way justification; title: Beginning in the middle; title: Justification, contextual, and comparative; title: Justification in the empirical sciences; title: Circularity versus linearity; title: Democratic controls; title: Interactionism; title: Truth; title: Allergy to absolute truth; title: Provisionality and truth; title: Truth versus verification; title: Truth and fixity; title: Transparency, tarski, and carnap; title: Truth and certainty; title: Sentences as truth candidates; title: Theoretical terms; title: Varieties of instrumentalism; title: Pragmatism and instrumentalism; title: Systems, simplicity, reduction; title: Crises in science; title: Reduction and expansion; title: Worlds; title: Philosophies of truth; title: Operationism and truth; title: Version-dependence; title: Differences among scientifically oriented philosophers; title: Monism, pluralism, plurealism; title: Realism versus irrealism; title: A theory of everything; title: The status of ethics; title: Emotive theories : Ayer and Stevenson; title: Moore's ethical intuitionism; title: Dewey and ethical naturalism; title: Symbol, reference, and ritual; title: Pragmatic themes; title: Belief; title: Problems of pragmatism and pragmatic responses; title: Peirce's theory of belief, doubt, and inquiry; title: Peirce's comparison of methods; title: Difficulties in Peirce's treatment; title: An epistemological interpretation; title: The primacy of method; title: Action; title: Emotion; title: Emotions in the service of cognition; title: Cognitive emotions; title: Cognition.