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The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge: Why Philosophers are not Entitled to their Beliefs

Autor János Tozsér
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iun 2023
Philosophy begins and ends in disagreement. Philosophers disagree among themselves in innumerable ways, and this pervasive and permanent dissent is a sign of their inability to solve philosophical problems and present well-established substantive truths.This raises the question: "What should we do with our philosophical beliefs in light of philosophy's epistemic failure?" In this open access book, János Tozsér analyzes the possible answers to this question, develops them into comprehensive metaphilosophical visions, and argues that we cannot commit ourselves to any of them in peace, with a clear intellectual conscience, and without self-deception.Tozsér calls this disheartening insight "the experience of breakdown," claiming that no matter how we struggle, we are unable to create substantive philosophical knowledge that goes beyond the cost-benefit analysis of philosophical theories. He makes the case that, at the same time, we cannot suspend all of our beliefs about the most fundamental facts of our world once and for all, and so forever give up on seeking substantive philosophical truths.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350340046
ISBN-10: 1350340049
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Examines the main difficulties in the commitment to the metaphilosophical visions under discussions

Notă biografică

János Tozsér is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I 1. Philosophy as an Epistemic Enterprise 2. Philosophy as a Failed Epistemic Enterprise Part II 3. Therapy for Philosophers 4. Philosophy with (Intended-To-Be) Compelling Justification 5. Philosophy without Compelling Justification 6. Meta-skepticism Part III 7. Breakdown Bibliography Index

Recenzii

A challenging and delightfully argued work of metaphilosophy - one that is not only astute on the details of particular contemporary arguments but reflects a depth of understanding of philosophy's history.
János Tozsér offers an uncompromisingly honest assessment of whether philosophy achieves its own stated goals, and answers with an emphatic NO. I won't give up philosophy after reading the book, and I hope neither will Tozsér, but I will have to rethink what I do when I do philosophy.