Truth and Justification

Name: Truth and Justification
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ISBN: 9780262582582

ISBN-10: 0262582589

ISBN-13: 9780262582582

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jï¿½rgen Habermas, Barbara Fultner

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Jurgen Habermas has developed the theory of communicative action primarily in the context of critical social and political theory and discourse ethics. The essays collected in this volume, however, focus on the theory's implications for epistemology and metaphysics. They address two fundamental issues that have not figured prominently in his work since the early 1970s. One is the question of naturalism: How can the ineluctable normativity of the perspective of agents interacting in a linguistically structured lifeworld be reconciled with the contingency of the emergence and evolution of forms of life? The other is a key problem facing epistemological realism after the linguistic turn: How…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 349
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748

Jï¿½rgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.



Translator's Introduction


Introdcution: Realism after the Linguistic Turn



Hermeneutic and Analytic Philosophy: Two Complementary Versions of the Linguistic Turn



From Kant's "Ideas" of Pure Reason to the "Idealizing" Presuppositions of Communicative Action: Reflections on the Detranscendentalized "Use of Reason"



From Kant to Hegel: On Robert Brandom's Pragmatic Philosophy of Language



From Kant to Hegel and Back Again: The Move toward Detranscendentalization



Norms and Values: On Hilary Putnam's Kantian Pragmatism



Rightness versus Truth: On the Sense of Normative Validity in Moral Judgments and Norms



The Relationship between Theory and Practice Revisited


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