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Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge : Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ayn Rand Society Philosophical StudiesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822978565
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Concepts and Their Role in KnowledgeDDC classification:
  • 121.4
LOC classification:
  • B945
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Essays -- Ayn Rand's Theory of Concepts: Rethinking Abstraction and Essence -- Conceptualization and Justification -- Perceptual Awareness as Presentational -- Concepts, Context, and the Advance of Science -- Part Two: Discussion -- Concepts and Kinds -- Rand on Concepts, Definitions, and the Advance of Science: Comments on Gotthelf and Lennox -- Natural Kinds and Rand's Theory of Concepts: Reflections on Griffiths -- Definitions -- Rand on Definitions-One Size Fits All?: Comments on Gotthelf -- Taking the Measure of a Definition: Response to Bogen -- Concepts and Theory Change -- On Concepts that Change with the Advance of Science: Comments on Lennox -- Conceptual Development versus Conceptual Change: Response to Burian -- Perceptual Awareness -- In Defense of the Theory of Appearing: Comments on Ghate and Salmieri -- Forms of Awareness and "Three-Factor" Theories -- Direct Perception and Salmieri's "Forms of Awareness" -- Keeping Up Appearances: Reflections on the Debate over Perceptual Infallibilism -- Uniform Abbreviations of Works by Ayn Rand -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand's radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand's theory of concepts--including its new account of abstraction and essence--and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author's responses to those commentaries.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Essays -- Ayn Rand's Theory of Concepts: Rethinking Abstraction and Essence -- Conceptualization and Justification -- Perceptual Awareness as Presentational -- Concepts, Context, and the Advance of Science -- Part Two: Discussion -- Concepts and Kinds -- Rand on Concepts, Definitions, and the Advance of Science: Comments on Gotthelf and Lennox -- Natural Kinds and Rand's Theory of Concepts: Reflections on Griffiths -- Definitions -- Rand on Definitions-One Size Fits All?: Comments on Gotthelf -- Taking the Measure of a Definition: Response to Bogen -- Concepts and Theory Change -- On Concepts that Change with the Advance of Science: Comments on Lennox -- Conceptual Development versus Conceptual Change: Response to Burian -- Perceptual Awareness -- In Defense of the Theory of Appearing: Comments on Ghate and Salmieri -- Forms of Awareness and "Three-Factor" Theories -- Direct Perception and Salmieri's "Forms of Awareness" -- Keeping Up Appearances: Reflections on the Debate over Perceptual Infallibilism -- Uniform Abbreviations of Works by Ayn Rand -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand's radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand's theory of concepts--including its new account of abstraction and essence--and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author's responses to those commentaries.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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