Research Catalog

Title

Reason, truth, and reality / Dan Goldstick.

Author

Goldstick, D. (Daniel), 1940-

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.

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Details

Description

x, 337 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Reason, Truth, and Reality addresses two fundamental questions: what sort of world do we inhabit, and what moral obligations do we have? To answer these questions Dan Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defence of pre-Kantian rationalism based on a substantive characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning. He argues that if reason so characterized is to track the truth reliably, consequences contrary to empiricism follow concerning change, causality, and obligation."--Jacket.

Subject

• Reason
• Rationalism
• Ethics
• Ethics
• reason
• rationalism (philosophy)
• ethics (philosophy)
• Rationalismus
• Vernunft
• Ethik
• Rationalismus
• Vernunft
• Ethik
• Förnuftet

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part One: Introductory: Introduction -- On Moore's paradox -- On factuality -- On the canons of deductive inference -- Preliminary assault on the philosophy of empiricism -- Part Two: On the canons of induction: Preliminary considerations -- Sensationalism -- Naturalism -- Inductivism -- Pragmatism -- Nihilism, scepticism, and decisionism -- Possibility, probability, negation, and change -- Causality and impermanence -- Simplicity -- How to reason inductively -- The case for universal impermanence -- That determinism is incontrovertible -- The pitfall of metaphysics -- Part Three: on the canons of morality: Preliminary considerations -- Sensationalism -- Naturalism -- Inductivism -- Pragmatism -- Nihilism, scepticism, and decisionism -- Ethics and induction --Mores -- 'Consciencelessness' -- Utility -- Comparing utilities -- Population -- 'Hypocrisy' stipulatively defined -- Utilitarianism proved -- Conclusion: we each sit in judgment.

ISBN

• 9780802095947
• 0802095941

LCCN

2009504514

OCLC

• ocn608284054
• 608284054
• SCSB-9577511

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library