Worlds of Truth

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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

WORLDS OF TRUTH: A Philosophy of Knowledge 2
- Contents 8
- Preface 11
- Acknowledgments 13
- Introduction 14
- Part I: Inquiry 18
  - Chapter 1: Justification 20
    - 1. Beliefs 20
    - 2. Access to Truth 21
    - 3. Cogito Ergo Sum 22
    - 4. Mathematical Certainty 24
    - 5. Classical Logic 25
    - 6. C. I. Lewis’ Empiricism 27
    - 7. Access as a Metaphor 30
    - 8. J. F. Fries and K. Popper 31

WORLDS OF TRUTH: A Philosophy of Knowledge 2
- Contents 8
- Preface 11
- Acknowledgments 13
- Introduction 14
- Part I: Inquiry 18
  - Chapter 1: Justification 20
    - 1. Beliefs 20
    - 2. Access to Truth 21
    - 3. Cogito Ergo Sum 22
    - 4. Mathematical Certainty 24
    - 5. Classical Logic 25
    - 6. C. I. Lewis’ Empiricism 27
    - 7. Access as a Metaphor 30
    - 8. J. F. Fries and K. Popper 31
    - 9. Voluntarism and Linearity 32
    - 10. One-Way Justification 33
    - 11. Beginning in the Middle 34
    - 12. Justification, Contextual and Comparative 35
    - 13. Justification in the Empirical Sciences 36
    - 14. Circularity versus Linearity 38
    - 15. Democratic Controls 38
    - 16. Interactionism 40
  - Chapter 2: Truth 43
    - 1. Allergy to Absolute Truth 44
    - 2. Provisionality and Truth 45
    - 3. Truth versus Verification 47
    - 4. Truth and Fixity 49
    - 5. Transparency, Tarski, and Carnap 51
    - 6. Truth and Certainty 55
    - 7. Sentences as Truth Candidates 57
    - 8. Theoretical Terms 57
    - 9. Varieties of Instrumentalism 58
    - 10. Pragmatism and Instrumentalism 58
    - 11. Systems, Simplicity, Reduction 59
    - 12. Crises in Science 64
    - 13. Reduction and Expansion 65
  - Chapter 3: Worlds 68
    - 1. Philosophies of Truth 68
    - 2. Operationism and Truth 70
    - 3. Version-Dependence 72
    - 4. Differences among Scientifically Oriented Philosophers 74
    - 5. Monism, Pluralism, Plurealism 75
    - 6. Realism versus Irrealism 79
    - 7. A Theory of Everything 85
    - 9. Emotive Theories; Ayer and Stevenson 88
    - 8. The Status of Ethics 88
    - 10. Moore’s Ethical Intuitionism 90
    - 11. Dewey and Ethical Naturalism 92
    - 12. Symbol, Reference, and Ritual 94
  - Part II: Related Pragmatic Themes 106
    - Chapter 4: Belief and Method 108
    - Introduction 108
      - 1. Problems of Pragmatism and Pragmatic Responses 111
      - 2. Peirce’s Theory of Belief, Doubt, and Inquiry 115
      - 3. Peirce’s Comparison of Methods 117
      - 4. Difficulties in Peirce’s Treatment 119
      - 5. An Epistemological Interpretation 121
      - 6. The Primacy of Method 122
    - Chapter 5: Action and Commitment 127
    - Chapter 6: Emotion and Cognition 138
      - 1. Emotions in the Service of Cognition 139
      - 2. Cognitive Emotions 145
    - Index 156

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Israel Scheffler: Harvard University, USA

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