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Knowledge and Reality

An Essay in Positive Philosophy

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Paolo Parrini

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Florence, Italy

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 59)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 1-8

  3. Positivisms Old and New

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 9-33

  4. Epistemic Relativism, Apriorism, Neoempiricism

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 34-61

  5. Theory, Observation, and Empiricism

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 62-87

  6. Logical Idealism, Formal Coherence, and Material Correspondence

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 88-114

  7. Realism, Instrumentalism, Neopositivism

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 115-142

  8. Truth, Cognitive Objectivity, Metaphysics

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 143-170

  9. Scepticism, Scientific Rationality, Philosophy

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 171-196

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 197-221
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XIV The stability of a philosophical construction will depend not only upon the solidity of the blocks, of the pillars and architraves that make it up, but also upon the way in which all these parts are connected. Of course, it will not be possible to argue for every single part of a philosophical building: to do so would mean to embark in a virtually endless enterprise. Accordingly, some of the parts of a philosophical building will have to be taken from the literature on the subject as 'ready made' or 'semi-finished' elements, while others will be argued for in the course of building. This is what happened in my work too. In some cases (for in­ stance, in the case of epistemic relativism), my concern was to illustrate theses which I believed to be sufficiently consolidated, rather than to ar­ gue for them. In other cases - where I was directly engaged in building the theory that I want to fonnulate - I did exactly the opposite. This is what I have tried to achieve, for example, for those proper architraves of my construction, viz. the connection between scepticism and metaphysi­ cal realism. and the thesis of the nonnative value of the fundamental epistemological notions (truth, objectivity, and rationality).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Florence, Italy

    Paolo Parrini

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge and Reality

  • Book Subtitle: An Essay in Positive Philosophy

  • Authors: Paolo Parrini

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9040-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4939-6Published: 31 March 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4990-2Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9040-2Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 222

  • Topics: Epistemology, History, general, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics

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