Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism

by Paul Boghossian

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Relativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world in recent times. In his long-awaited first book, Paul Boghossian critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental flaws.

Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed--one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019928718X

ISBN13:9780199287185

Release Date:April 2006

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:152 Pages

Weight:0.68 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"

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Epistemology Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks

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