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Free Download Sami Pihlström, "Pragmatism and Objectivity: Essays Sparked by the Work of Nicholas Rescher"
English | 2017 | pages: 293 | ISBN: 0367595370, 1138655236 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Pragmatism and Objectivity illuminates the nature of contemporary pragmatism against the background of Rescher’s work, resulting in a stronger grasp of the prospects and promises of this philosophical movement. The central insight of pragmatism is that we must start from where we find ourselves and deflate metaphysical theories of truth in favor of an account that reflects our actual practices of the concept. Pragmatism links truth and rationality to experience, success, and action. While crude versions of pragmatism state that truth is whatever works for a person or a community, Nicholas Rescher has been at the forefront of arguing for a more sophisticated pragmatist position. According to his position, we can illuminate a robust concept of truth by considering its links with inquiry, assertion, belief, and action. His brand of pragmatism is objective and organized around truth and inquiry, rather than other forms of pragmatism that are more subjective and lenient. The contingency and fallibility of knowledge and belief formation does not mean that our beliefs are simply what our community decides, or that truth and objectivity are spurious notions. Rescher offers the best chance of understanding how it is that beliefs can be the products of human inquiry yet aim at the truth nonetheless. The essays in this volume, written by established and up-and-coming scholars of pragmatism, touch on themes related to epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics.

Free Download Objectivity (Key Concepts in Philosophy) by Guy Axtell
English | December 2, 2015 | ISBN: 074566220X, 0745662218 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 0.3 MB
What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal ‘know-how’ or ‘objective facts’? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should we value objectivity, and is it achievable anyway?

Free Download Objectivity, Realism, and Proof: FilMat Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics by Francesca Boccuni
English | EPUB (True) | 2016 | 370 Pages | ISBN : 3319316427 | 2.7 MB
This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemological, ontological and logical issues interact in the attempt to give a satisfactory picture of mathematical knowledge.

Free Download Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, 2nd Edition by Theodore M. Porter
English | August 18, 2020 | ISBN: 0691208417 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.6 MB
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification

Free Download Flavia Padovani, "Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies "
English | ISBN: 3319143484 | 2015 | 232 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This highly multidisciplinary collection discusses an increasingly important topic among scholars in science and technology studies: objectivity in science. It features eleven essays on scientific objectivity from a variety of perspectives, including philosophy of science, history of science, and feminist philosophy. Topics addressed in the book include the nature and value of scientific objectivity, the history of objectivity, and objectivity in scientific journals and communities. Taken individually, the essays supply new methodological tools for theorizing what is valuable in the pursuit of objective knowledge and for investigating its history. The essays offer many starting points, while suggesting new avenues of research. Taken collectively, the essays exemplify the very virtues of objectivity that they theorize―in reading them together, the reader can sense various anxieties about the dangerously subjective in our age and locate commonalities of concern as well as differences of approach. As a result, the volume offers an expansive vision of a research community seeking a communal understanding of its own methods and its own epistemic anxieties, struggling to enunciate the key problems of knowledge of our time and offer insight into how to overcome them.