عنوان

Objectivism and the corruption of rationality :

شابک

0595267335

شابک

9780595267330

شماره

b788595

عنوان اصلي

Objectivism and the corruption of rationality :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a critique of Ayn Rand's epistemology /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Scott Ryan.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Lincoln, NE :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Writers Club Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiv, 416 pages ;

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416).

متن يادداشت

Axioms and concepts: Objectivism and the a priori ; Are "axiomatic concepts" concepts? ; Implicit reliance on a priori insight ; "Stolen concepts" and the absolute presuppositions of thought ; More fear of religion ; What does Rand mean by " concept"? ; Still more implicit idealism -- The correspondence theory of truth: Rand's theory of truth ; Correspondence or not? ; Association with "external realism" ; Does correspondence preclude coherence? ; Rand's inconsistent "external realism" -- The "primary of existence" vs. the "primacy of consciousness": The rationality of theism ; Rand's fundamental dichotomy ; Atheism as Rand's philosophical motivation ; "Existence exists" ; A false dichotomy and a presumption of materialism ; Disconnecting mind from reality -- Values and volition: the objectivist ethics: Idolizing autonomy ; Rand's theory of value ; Objectivism's subjectivist ethic ; Ethical axioms? ; Moral obligations not arising from the "choice to live" ; One's life as one's "highest value" ; "Egoism vs. altruism" as a false dichotomy ; Dueling axioms ; Unchosen obligations and their grounding in an ideal common end ; Rand on capitalism, liberty, and the "common man" -- The tale of the self-preceding man: The emergence of consciousness from matter? ; Objectivism and dehumanizing ; The illusion of a moral standard ; "Man qua man": deriving "is" from "ought" ; Humans and subhumans ; Misconceiving justice ; The sanction of the victim -- Afterword -- Appendix: Theism, rationalism, and objective idealism.

متن يادداشت

Why critique Ayn Rand's epistemology?: Why bother? ; A minimal idealism ; Fear of religion ; Rand the idealist? -- The (genuine) problem of universals: What is a "universal" ; Scenes from a "workshop" -- The optical illusion of objectivism: Rand the nominalist? ; Rand's statement of the problem ; Is there a "third way"? ; Rand the realist? ; The unclearness of her intent ; A failure of introspection ; Rand's antireligious motivation -- Sensation, perception, and the tabula rasa mind: Rand's non-account of sensation vs. perception ; Peikoff's problematic account ; Two objectivist counterarguments ; Improving the objectivist account ; How does a blank slate learn to preceive? ; Implicit idealism, explicit empiricism -- The mind's activity in concept-formation: Universals, units, and natural kinds: Why Rand's concern about the mind's "activity"? ; Roy Wood Sellars: logical conceptualist and ontological nominalist ; Knowledge without universals? ; Perceiving things as "units" ; Are "kinds" real or not? ; "Innovations" or failures? -- Rand's theory of measurement-omission: A realistic resemblance theory ; Perceiving commensurability? ; Apprehending logical relations ; Measurement without measurements? ; Sense and reference, idea and object -- Concepts, propositions, and truth: Truth: a matter of propositions ; "Invalid" concepts: from where? ; Rand the idealist vs. Rand the empiricist (again) ; Contextually absolute knowledge ; Objectivism and pragmatism -- Universals, particulars, and direct realism: Is Rand a direct realist? ; Direct awareness of entities ; An entity is its attributes ; Universals and particularity ; The collapse of objectivism's perceptual realism -- Two views of reason: Rand's view of reason ; Blanshard's view of reason ; Objectivism's deflationary account of necessity ; Necessity in causation ; Nondeterministic causation and the principle of sufficient reason -- Objectivism and explanation ; Straw-man determinism.

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موضوع مستند نشده

Rand, Ayn-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Rand, Ayn.

موضوع مستند نشده

Objectivism (Philosophy)

موضوع مستند نشده

Objectivism (Philosophy)

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ryan, Scott.

تاريخ عمليات

20201207020731.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y