When Feeling Out of Sight: Philosophy's Special Relationship with Unknowability.
Though all fields of inquiry have to struggle with their own unwelcome truths regarding unknowability, philosophy's relationship with unknowability is special. But philosophy's woes regarding unknowability are all of our woes, since what philosophy reveals as unknowable are pivotal presumptions that...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 287 - 311 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Spring2024
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| Sumario: | Though all fields of inquiry have to struggle with their own unwelcome truths regarding unknowability, philosophy's relationship with unknowability is special. But philosophy's woes regarding unknowability are all of our woes, since what philosophy reveals as unknowable are pivotal presumptions that are implicated in the general conceptual framework we all presume in pursuing our lives with some minimum degree of coherence. When philosophical reflection reveals that we are not entitled to these presumptions, then our entire grip on coherence seems to loosen. Unknowability then seems not to be localized within some highly specialized field but rather to engulf us globally. |
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