Between the absolute and the arbitrary
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Author
Publication
1997 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, England
Language
English
Word Count
51,250 words, Guess
Page Count
205 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22314064M
- ISBN-100801433592
- OCLC Control Number35792711
- OCLC Control Numberbetweenabsolutea00elgi
- Library of Congress Control Number96044469
and 2 more
- Goodreads3766294
- LibraryThing2345311
Classifications
- DDC121
- LCCB945.E413B48 1997
Description
In Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary, Catherine Z. Elgin maps a constructivist alternative to the standard Anglo-American conception of philosophy's problematic. Under the standard conception, unless answers to philosophical questions are absolute, they are arbitrary. Unless a philosophy is grounded in determinate, agent-neutral facts, it is right only relative to a perspective that cannot in the end be justified. Elgin charts a course between the two poles, showing how fact and value intertwine, where art and science intersect. Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary cuts a path through philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of art, disclosing common problems, resources, and solutions. Elgin highlights the ineliminability of values from the realm of facts, the dependence of facts on category schemes, and the ways human interests, practices, and goals affect the categories we contrive.
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