Philosophical Theorizing and its Limits
Anti-Theory in Ethics and Philosophy of Science
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Beschreibung
This book brings together scholars from ethics and philosophy of science in order to identify ways in which insights gleaned from one subfield can shed light on the other. The book focuses on two radical Anti-Theory movements that emerged in the 1970’s and 1980’s, one in philosophy of science and the other in ethics. Both movements challenged attempts to supply general, systematized philosophical theories within their domains and thus invited the reconsideration of what philosophical theorizing can and should offer. Each of these movements was domain-specific – that is, each criticized the aspirations to philosophical theories within its own domain and advanced arguments aimed at philosophers within their own specific subfield. The innovative systematic comparative examination of these movements by scholars from each domain sheds new light on some familiar debates, offers new and exciting paths of research to pursue in each domain, provides insight into the place of science and ethics in contemporary life and culture, and enables a fresh view on the longstanding and alluring philosophical aspiration for a fully general, absolute theory of reality and an ultimate objective foundational theory of knowledge.
This book brings together scholars from ethics and philosophy of science in order to identify ways in which insights gleaned from one subfield can shed light on the other. The book focuses on two radical Anti-Theory movements that emerged in the 1970’s and 1980’s, one in philosophy of science and the other in ethics. Both movements challenged attempts to supply general, systematized philosophical theories within their domains and thus invited the reconsideration of what philosophical theorizing can and should offer. Each of these movements was domain-specific – that is, each criticized the aspirations to philosophical theories within its own domain and advanced arguments aimed at philosophers within their own specific subfield. The innovative systematic comparative examination of these movements by scholars from each domain sheds new light on some familiar debates, offers new and exciting paths of research to pursue in each domain, provides insight into the place of science and ethics in contemporary life and culture, and enables a fresh view on the longstanding and alluring philosophical aspiration for a fully general, absolute theory of reality and an ultimate objective foundational theory of knowledge.
Brings together ethics and philosophy of science, domains that are typically pursued independently of one another Dedicated to a comparative assessment of the anti-theory movements in philosophy of science and ethics Challenges standard approaches to ethics and philosophy of science as commonly practiced in contemporary philosophy
Autor*in
Uri D. Leibowitz
Themen in »Philosophical Theorizing and its Limits«
Theory and Anti-theory Action guidance and practical guidance Scientific method Normativity in Ethics and Philosophy of Science Ethical descriptions The explanatory role of principles Wittgenstein on the craving for generality Historicism in Philosophy of Science Feyerabend & Epistemological Anarchism Pragmatism & Instrumentalism Objectivity and Interpretation in Science and Ethics Evidence based theories & Best practices in medicine Animal Ethics