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Objectivity
Taschenbuch von Guy Axtell
Sprache: Englisch

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What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal 'know-how' or 'objective facts'? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should we value objectivity, and is it achievable anyway?

These are a few of the thought-provoking questions Guy Axtell asks in this comprehensive new text book, employing examples from the natural and social sciences as well as philosophy. This unique introduction surveys the key issues in a clear and concise way, assessing the nature of objectivity and value of the demand to be impartial decision-makers. Moving beyond the fundamentals, Axtell explores contemporary feminist and social epistemological attempts to 'reconstruct' the concept of objectivity, explains the implications of the so-called science wars for philosophy and the analytical method, and the ethical consequences of these debates.

Objectivity is an excellent introduction to one of the most exciting areas of study in philosophy and science today. Students and scholars alike will value this balanced guide to a hotly contested, and vitally important, topic.
What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal 'know-how' or 'objective facts'? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should we value objectivity, and is it achievable anyway?

These are a few of the thought-provoking questions Guy Axtell asks in this comprehensive new text book, employing examples from the natural and social sciences as well as philosophy. This unique introduction surveys the key issues in a clear and concise way, assessing the nature of objectivity and value of the demand to be impartial decision-makers. Moving beyond the fundamentals, Axtell explores contemporary feminist and social epistemological attempts to 'reconstruct' the concept of objectivity, explains the implications of the so-called science wars for philosophy and the analytical method, and the ethical consequences of these debates.

Objectivity is an excellent introduction to one of the most exciting areas of study in philosophy and science today. Students and scholars alike will value this balanced guide to a hotly contested, and vitally important, topic.
Über den Autor
Guy Axtell is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Radford University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Valuable but Contested Concept
Part I: The Intelligible World
1. Objectivity and 'First Philosophies'
2. Objectivism, Relativism, and the Cartesian Anxiety
Part II: Beyond the 'Science Wars'
3. Objectivity in the Natural Sciences
4. Objectivity in the Human and Behavioral Sciences
Part III: Critical Reconstructions of Objectivity
5. Objectivity Rehabilitated
6. Ethics and Objectivity
Notes
References
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 216
Inhalt: 216 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745662213
ISBN-10: 0745662218
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Axtell, Guy
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 216 x 136 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Guy Axtell
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 104836548
Über den Autor
Guy Axtell is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Radford University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Valuable but Contested Concept
Part I: The Intelligible World
1. Objectivity and 'First Philosophies'
2. Objectivism, Relativism, and the Cartesian Anxiety
Part II: Beyond the 'Science Wars'
3. Objectivity in the Natural Sciences
4. Objectivity in the Human and Behavioral Sciences
Part III: Critical Reconstructions of Objectivity
5. Objectivity Rehabilitated
6. Ethics and Objectivity
Notes
References
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 216
Inhalt: 216 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745662213
ISBN-10: 0745662218
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Axtell, Guy
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 216 x 136 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Guy Axtell
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 104836548
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