Inference and the Metaphysic of Reason: An Onto-Epistemological Critique (Marquette Studies in Philosophy) - Softcover

Phillip Stambovsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874627656 ISBN 13: 9780874627657

Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr, 2009

Synopsis

This book elucidates how the so-called problem of inference, long a matter of debate among philosophers of logic, epistemology, language, and other domains of speculation, is inextricably tied to the issue of how, in the classical idiom, Knowing is of Being. Motivating this project is an underlying question that guides the discussion throughout: namely, How is it most rational to orient ourselves in thinking about the way that the inferential intelligence articulates the actual? The principal task of the essay as a whole is to think-through this metaphysical question by addressing the Reason (Vernunft) of the act of inference critically and from an onto-epistemological standpoint.

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About the Author

Phillip Stambovsky holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a PhD in Philosophy from Boston College. In addition to essays on literary and philosophical topics, he has published three previous books: The Depictive Image; Myth and the Limits of Reason (foreword by Louis Dupré); and Philosophical Conceptualization and Literary Art: Inference, Ereignis, and Conceptual Attunement to the Work of Poetic Genius. Professor Stambovsky lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0874627656
• ISBN 13: 9780874627657
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 362