Author: Nicos Stavropoulos
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, objectivity
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1996-07-25
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0198258992
ISBN-13: 9780198258995

This book addresses a central topic in contemporary jurisprudence: whether it is possible for legal interpretations to be objective. The author argues that objectivity is possible in law, and grounds this possibility firmly in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, and meta-ethics. He then systematically explores the philosophical prejudices that have operated as sources of resistance to this possibility. These prejudices, once identified, help to illuminate fundamental debates in jurisprudence.

Author: Tyler Burge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: objectivity, origins
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2010-04-30
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0199581398
ISBN-13: 9780199581399

Tyler Burge presents a substantial, original study of what it is for individuals to represent the physical world with the most primitive sort of objectivity. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, he gives an account of constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, and thus aims to locate origins of representational mind. Origins of Objectivity illuminates several long-standing, central issues in philosophy, and provides a wide-ranging account of relations between human and animal psychologies.

Author: Crispin Wright
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: objectivity, truth
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0674910877
ISBN-13: 9780674910874

Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgments, whose status they contest, are at least semantically fitted for truth and may often justifiably be regarded as true. In the course of his argument, Wright offers original critical discussions of many central concerns of philosophers interested in realism, i

Author: A. B. Dickerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: objectivity, representation, kant
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-11-24
List price: $79.99
ISBN-10: 0521831210
ISBN-13: 9780521831215

This book is a study of the second-edition version of the "Transcendental Deduction" (the so-called "B-Deduction"), one of the most important and obscure sections of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Adam Dickerson analyzes most of the key themes in Kant’s theory of knowledge, including the nature of thought and representation, the notion of objectivity, and the way in which the mind structures our experience of the world.

Author: Mark Sacks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: insight, objectivity
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-01-25
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0198250584
ISBN-13: 9780198250586

The first two parts of Objectivity and Insight explore the prospects for objectivity on the standard ontological conception, and find that they are not good. In Part I, under the heading of subject-driven scepticism, Sacks addresses the problem of securing epistemic reach that extends beyond subjective content. In so doing, he considers models of mind proposed by Locke, Hume, Kant, James, and Bergson. Part II, under the heading of world-driven scepticism, discusses the scope for universality of normative structure-a problem which survives even after the assumption of an epistemologically signi

Author: Gordon Jury
Publisher: Ward Press
Keywords: objectivity, ethical, value
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406774499
ISBN-13: 9781406774498

VALUE AND ETHICAL OBJECTIVITY A Study in Ethical Objectivity and the Objectivity of Value BY GORDON S. JURY LONDON GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN LTD MUSEUM STREET FOREWORD PROFESSOR JURY has, I think, made a real con tribution to the solution of the difficult problem of the nature of ethical objectivity. As he points out in the Introduction to the present work, developments both in ethics proper and in general philosophy brought the problem into the fore ground and made it central in current discussions. Few studies have, I think, grasped so thoroughly the nature and implications of the problem, and his

Author: Tyler Burge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: objectivity, origins
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2010-04-30
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0199581401
ISBN-13: 9780199581405

Tyler Burge presents a substantial, original study of what it is for individuals to represent the physical world with the most primitive sort of objectivity. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, he gives an account of constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, and thus aims to locate origins of representational mind. Origins of Objectivity illuminates several long-standing, central issues in philosophy, and provides a wide-ranging account of relations between human and animal psychologies.