Summary
The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this stance account for the epistemic standing of science, which unabashedly relies on models, idealizations, and thought experiments that are known not to be true? In True Enough, Catherine Elgin argues th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262036535 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262036533 |
| Author: | Catherine Z. Elgin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 651g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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An impressively wide-ranging, meticulously argued, thought-provoking book…Elgin’s True Enough is a philosophical tour-de-force of incredible breadth.
—British Journal for the Philosophy of ScienceElgin’s project will show that we get on just fine, intellectually as well as practically, by replacing truth and knowledge with “true enough” and understanding.
—Journal of PhilosophyAn original, fruitful blend of epistemology and philosophy of science…this is a wonderful book, written in an elegant and informal style, and replete with stimulating ideas on a wide range of subjects.
—Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsAbout The Author
Catherine Z. Elgin
Catherine Z. Elgin is Professor of the Philosophy of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Considered Judgment, Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary, With Reference to Reference, and (with Nelson Goodman) Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences.
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