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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.
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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.
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This book engages the confrontation between the foundationalist aims of traditional philosophy, the postmodern critique, and the pragmatic attempt to maintain a form of non-foundational inquiry. Through readings of the work of Peirce, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Buchler, Derrida, Rorty, and others, the author examines the nature and scope of philosophical knowledge.
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Lawrence E. Cahoone is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He is the author of The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture, also published by SUNY Press and winner of the 1989 Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award.
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- PublisherState Univ of New York Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0791423220
- ISBN 13 9780791423226
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages444
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