Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology
The philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than twenty-eight million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. Despite her popularity, Rand's philosophy of Objectivism has received little serious attention from academic philosophers.Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand's radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand's theory of concepts--including its new account of abstraction and ess…
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Weitere Autoren: Lennox, James G. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8229-4424-9
- EAN: 9780822944249
- Produktnummer: 14470263
- Verlag: Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 298 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.7 cm 559 g
- Gewicht: 559
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Allan Gotthelf is Anthem Foundation Distinguished Fellow for Research and Teaching in Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Ayn Rand and Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology and coeditor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology and the forthcoming Ayn Rand: A Companion to Her Works and Thought.James G. Lennox is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals I-IVand Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science. Lennox is coeditor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology;Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf; and Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences.
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