Essays in Quasi-Realism Kitap pdf indir

Simon Blackburn, yarı gerçekçiliği savunduğu metaetik ve dil felsefesi alanındaki çalışmalarıyla tanınan bir İngiliz akademik filozoftur; daha yakın zamanlarda, felsefeyi popülerleştirme çabalarıyla geniş bir genel izleyici kitlesi kazandı. 2011'de Cambridge Üniversitesi'nde felsefe profesörü olarak emekli oldu, ancak her güz döneminde ders vererek Chapel Hill'deki Kuzey Carolina Üniversitesi'nde seçkin bir felsefe araştırma profesörü olmaya devam ediyor. Aynı zamanda Cambridge'deki Trinity College Üyesi ve New College of the Humanities profesörünün bir üyesidir. Daha önce Oxford'daki Pembroke College Üyesiydi ve ayrıca Kuzey Carolina Üniversitesi'nde Edna J. Koury Profesörü olarak tam zamanlı ders verdi. 2009-2010 döneminde hizmet vermiş olan Aristoteles Derneği'nin eski başkanıdır. 2002 yılında İngiliz Akademisi Üyesi ve 2008 yılında Amerikan Sanat ve Bilim Akademisi Yabancı Onursal Üyesi seçildi.

Essays in Quasi-Realism kitap pdf oku ve indir Simon Blackburn

This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the view that there are substantial issues at stake. The figure of the "quasi-realist" dramatizes the difficulty of conducting these debates. Typically philosophers thinking of themselves as realists will believe that they alone can give a proper or literal account of some of our attachments--to truth, to facts, to the independent world, to knowledge and certainty. The quasi-realist challenge, developed by Blackburn in this volume, is that we can have those attachments without any metaphysic that deserves to be called realism, so that the metaphysical picture that goes with our practices is quite idle. The cases treated here include the theories of value and knowledge, modality, probability, causation, intentionality and rule-following, and explanation. A substantial new introduction has been added, drawing together some of the central themes. The essays articulate a fresh alternative to a primitive realist/anti-realist opposition, and their cumulative effect is to yield a new appreciation of the delicacy of the debate in these central areas.