The human a priori : essays on how we make sense in philosophy, ethics, and mathematics /
"The essays in this collection all reckon with something ineliminably anthropocentric in our systematic pursuit of a priori sense-making. The essays in Part I deal with the nature, scope, and limits of a priori sense-making in general. The essays in Parts II, III, and IV deal with what are ofte...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The essays in this collection all reckon with something ineliminably anthropocentric in our systematic pursuit of a priori sense-making. The essays in Part I deal with the nature, scope, and limits of a priori sense-making in general. The essays in Parts II, III, and IV deal with what are often thought to be the three great exemplars of the systematic pursuit of such sense-making: philosophy in the case of Part II, ethics in the case of Part III, and mathematics in the case of Part IV. Much of the attention throughout is devoted to the work of other philosophers: Kant and Wittgenstein feature prominently, and five of the essays take the form of reviews or critical notices of recent work in philosophy. But the interest in never purely exegetical. One of the lessons that emerges from the essays, either in opposition to the views of these other philosophers or by invocation of their views, is that we humans achieve nothing of real significance in philosophy, ethics, or mathematics except from a human point of view, and hence that all three of these pursuits can be said to betoken what may reasonably be called “the human a priori”"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 359 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192699206 0192699202 9780191967672 019196767X 9780192699213 0192699210 |