Worlds of truth: a philosophy of knowledge

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Inquiry 1. Justification 1. Beliefs 2. Access to Truth 3. Cogito Ergo Sum 4. Mathematical Certainty 5. Classical Logic 6. C. I. Lewis' Empiricism 7. Access as a Metaphor 8. J. F. Fries and K. Popper 9. Voluntarism and Linearity 10. One-Way Justification 11. Beginning in the Middle 12. Justification, Contextual and Comparative 13. Justification in the Empirical Sciences 14. Circularity versus Linearity 15. Democratic Controls 16. Interactionism 2. Truth 1. Allergy to Absolute Truth 2. Provisionality and Truth 3. Truth versus Verification 4. Truth and Fixity 5. Transparency, Tarski, and Carnap 6. Truth and Certainty 7. Sentences as Truth Candidates 8. Theoretical Terms 9. Varieties of Instrumentalism 10. Pragmatism and Instrumentalism 11. Systems, Simplicity, Reduction 12. Crises in Science 13. Reduction and Expansion 3. Worlds 1. Philosophies of Truth 2. Operationism and Truth 3. Version-Dependence 4. Differences among Scientifically Oriented Philosophers 5. Monism, Pluralism, Plurealism 6. Realism versus Irrealism 7. A Theory of Everything 8. The Status of Ethics 9. Emotive Theories Ayer and Stevenson 10. Moore's Ethical Intuitionism 11. Dewey and Ethical Naturalism 12. Symbol, Reference, and Ritual Part II: Related Pragmatic Themes 4. Belief and Method Introduction 1. Problems of Pragmatism and Pragmatic Responses 2. Peirce's Theory of Belief, Doubt, and Inquiry 3. Peirce's Comparison of Methods 4. Difficulties in Peirce's Treatment 5. An Epistemological Interpretation 6. The Primacy of Method 5. Action and Commitment 6. Emotion and Cognition 1. Emotions in the Service of Cognition 2. Cognitive Emotions Index