As if : idealization and ideals /

Idealization is a central feature of human thought. We build ideal models in the sciences, our politics is guided by pictures of impossible utopias, and our thinking about the arts and moral life is guided by images of how things might have been. In all these cases we sometimes proceed with a repres...

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Main Author:	Appiah, Anthony (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017].
Subjects:	Idealism. Pluralism.