True Enough (Hardcover Book)

True Enough (Hardcover Book)

USD $35.00 Catherine Z. Elgin [Writer] Published by-MIT Press

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About the True Enough (Hardcover Book)

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.

Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this stance account for the epistemic standing of science, which unabashedly relies on models, idealizations, and thought experiments that are known not to be true? In True Enough, Catherine Elgin argues that we should not assume that the inaccuracy of models and idealizations constitutes an inadequacy. To the contrary, their divergence from truth or representational accuracy fosters their epistemic functioning. When effective, models and idealizations are, Elgin contends, felicitous falsehoods that exemplify features of the phenomena they bear on. Because works of art deploy the same sorts of felicitous falsehoods, she argues, they also advance understanding.

Elgin develops a holistic epistemology that focuses on the understanding of broad ranges of phenomena rather than knowledge of individual facts. Epistemic acceptability, she maintains, is a matter not of truth-conduciveness, but of what would be reflectively endorsed by the members of an idealized epistemic community—a quasi-Kantian realm of epistemic ends.

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The price of "True Enough (Hardcover Book)" at Current Comics Monterey is USD $35.00.

The publisher of "True Enough (Hardcover Book)" is MIT Press.

The genres of "True Enough (Hardcover Book)" are Philosophy - Aesthetics, Philosophy - Epistemology, and Science - Philosophy & Social Aspects.

"True Enough (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).

The writer of "True Enough (Hardcover Book)" is Catherine Z. Elgin.