Stephen Gaukroger: 7 books
by Stephen Gaukroger
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
- Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical...
by Stephen Gaukroger
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
- Is objectivity possible?- Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes?- What would a truly objective account of the world be like?- Is everything subjective, or relative?- Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative?Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept....
The Natural and the Human
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated...
Objektivität
Ein Problem und seine Karriere
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Auf was kann man sich eigentlich noch verlassen? Gibt es so etwas wie Objektivität? Ja, meinen viele – oder doch nicht? Ist Objektivität überhaupt möglich? Und wenn ja: Kann es sie auch bei moralischen Urteilen oder in Geschmacksfragen geben? Oder ist sowieso alles subjektiv und relativ? Wenn...
The Aftermath of Syllogism
Aristotelian Logical Argument from Avicenna to Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Syllogism is a form of logical argument allowing one to deduce a consistent conclusion based on a pair of premises having a common term. Although Aristotle was the first to conceive and develop this way of reasoning, he left open a lot of conceptual space for further modifications, improvements and...
The Soft Underbelly of Reason
The Passions in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This book provides a valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century. The contributors show that fundamental questions about the nature of wisdom, goodness and beauty were understood in terms of the contrast between reason and passions in this era. Those with...
The Genealogy of Knowledge
Analytical Essays in the History of Philosophy and Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
First published in 1997, this volume expands the analytical philosophical tradition in the face of parochial Anglo-American philosophical interests. The essays making up the section on ‘Antiquity’ share one concern: to show that there are largely unrecognised but radical differences between the...