Conditions of rational inquiry : a study in the philosophy of value / David Pole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pole, David, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury academic collections. Philosophy, 2051-0012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judgment (Ethics).

Judgment (Logic).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Summary:

"D. Pole, whose Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein appeared in 1958, here makes a new attack on the problem of value-judgement by taking it out of its limited ethical context. Beginning with an examination and criticism of current views that base all moral and other principles on personal choice or decision, he finds a point of departure for his own account of the problem in the claim that rational inquiry of any sort rests on the possibility of evaluation. The place of the one process within the other is then worked out in some detail; and an attempt is made to show how inquiry, as a collective undertaking, involves the progressive search for and establishment of new principles."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

I. A Critique of Intuition

II. The Concept of Decision

III. Axiology and the Process of Inquiry

IV. The Development of Judgement

V. Knowledge of Principles

VI. Theory and Conduct

VII. Morality and the Form of Moral Concepts.

Notes:

Includes index.

Reprint. Originally published in 1961 by University of London/The Athlone Press.

ISBN:

9781472556523

1472556526

OCLC:

895073394