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The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge: Why Philosophers are not Entitled to their Beliefs Tozser, Janos (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary)
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The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge: Why Philosophers are not Entitled to their Beliefs
Tozser, Janos (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary)
Philosophy begins and ends in disagreement. Philosophers disagree among themselves in innumerable ways, and this pervasive and permanent dissent is a sign of their inability to solve philosophical problems and establish substantive truths. This raises the question: What should I do with my philosophical beliefs in the light of philosophy's epistemic failure? In this pathbreaking work, Janos Tozser develops four possible answers into comprehensive metaphilosophical visions and argues that we cannot find peace either by committing ourselves to one of these visions or by abandoning our philosophical beliefs.
Tozser calls this disheartening insight "the experience of breakdown", making the case that philosophy's truth-seeking and justificatory tools are unsuitable for establishing truths. Shedding light on the epistemic status of our philosophical beliefs, Tozser adopts a broad approach to assess the metaphilosophical visions used by philosophers to interpret their own activity and determine their epistemic self-esteem.
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 29, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350340046 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 163 × 20 mm · 524 g |
