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The Ends of Philosophy

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This is a critique of Peirce, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Buchler, Derrida, and Rorty as anti-realists, showing that each of these philosophers affirms some form of self-undermining relativism that cannot account for itself. The issue is, "can philosophy attain knowledge at all" This book seeks a deep and comprehensive confrontation between the foundationalist aims of traditional philosophy, the postmodern critique, and the pragmatic attempt to save a limited form of non-foundational inquiry. Through readings of the work of Peirce, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Buchler, Derrida, Rorty, and others, the possibility of philosophically valid knowledge is probed. The most prominent forms of contemporary anti-realism-relativism, naturalism, and pragmatism-are explored in the analytic, continental, and American traditions.
Request Code : ZLIBIO665505
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Year:
1995
Edition:
First Edition
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Language:
English
Pages:
436
ISBN 10:
0791423220
ISBN 13:
9780791423226
ISBN:
0791423220,9780791423226
Series:
SUNY Series in Philosophy

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