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Paul Boghossian - Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism - 9780199230419 - V9780199230419
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Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism

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Description for Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172.
The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a particular perspective. He demonstrates clearly that such claims don't even make sense. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed - one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way things ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199230419
SKU
V9780199230419
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Reviews for Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism
If only Boghossian's eminently reasonable book were required reading for every freshman considering entrance into the humanities...
Ars Disputandi
...lucid and effective ...
Times Literary Supplement
This is a great book for a seminar or discussion group. And its about time that someone wrote it. Happily, it was someone with Boghossians clarity, verve, and panache.
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