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Author:   Frank D. Schubert
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780761858973

ISBN 10:   0761858970
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   27 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction I. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Plato to Russell Plato Aristotle Medieval Nominalism: Abelard and Ockham Descartes Enlightenment “nominalism”: Hobbes, Locke, Reid, Hume Kant Mill and Frege Russell II. Personal Proper Names as a Certainty Standard: Wittgenstein to Brandom Wittgenstein Godel, Carnap and Ayer Quine Kripke Searle Brandom III. Religious Certainty Religious Facts The Illative Sense Testimony Composite Judgment IV. Political Certainty Tacit Normative Inclusion Juxtaposition Metanarrative Citizen Spells V. Familial/Tribal Certainty Socialization Grice Gettier Grue De Re and De Dicto Aggregated Knowledge as Home Spells (Again) VI. Scientific Certainty Maps and Posits Characterizations Negative-Free Characterizations Scientific Characterizations Natural, Aqueous and “Filled-In” Kinds Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend Communities of Tacit Knowledge VII. Certainty As We Understand It Reason-Exchanging Practices Problematic Background/Inventory Perfect and Imperfect Characterizations As We Understand It

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Frank D. Schubert holds degrees in philosophy and religion from the University of San Francisco and the University of Oxford and received his Ph.D. under Peter L. Berger at Boston University in 1987. Schubert’s philosophical interests address how certainties are created and how they are sustained by individuals and communities over time.

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