Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of KnowledgeSUNY Press, 1 янв. 1977 г. - Всего страниц: 128 This book explores a disputational approach to inquiry. Such a focus on disputation is useful because it exhibits epistemological process at work in a setting of socially conditioned interactions. This socially oriented perspective reflects the anti-Cartesian animus of the dialectical approach to epistemology. It strives to avert the baneful influence of the egocentric orientation of recent approaches in the theory of knowledge. The traditional and orthodox emphasis on the epistemological questions How can I convince myself? and How can I be certain? invites us to forget the fundamentally social nature of the ground rules of probative reasoning--their rooting in the issue of how we can go about convincing one another. The dialectic of disputation and controversy provides a useful antidote to such cognitive egocentrism by affording a point of departure in epistemology which blocks any temptation to forget the crucial fact that the buildup of knowledge is a communal enterprise subject to communal standards. |
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The disputational background of dialectic the structure of formal disputation | 1 |
2 The structure of a disputation | 4 |
3 The formal analysis of dialectical moves and countermoves in disputation | 5 |
4 Probative asymmetries | 17 |
5 The microstructure of the dialectic of disputation | 18 |
6 The determination adjudication of a disputation | 20 |
Some dialectical tools burden of proof presumption and plausibility | 25 |
2 Presumption and the concept of a provisionally adequate case | 28 |
6 Conclusion | 66 |
Recent ventures in inconsistencytolerant logics | 67 |
Dialogue as an instrument of logical exposition | 71 |
What justifies the dialectical rationale of probative rationality? | 73 |
2 Probative mechanisms as requisites of rationality | 75 |
3 Is Rationality a Matter of Ethics? | 76 |
A dialectically based critique of scepticism | 81 |
2 Scepticism and rationality | 82 |
3 Presumption and burden of proof | 30 |
4 The locus of presumption | 35 |
5 Plausibility and presumption | 37 |
6 More on presumptions | 42 |
7 The need for a termination process in rational controversy | 43 |
Unilateral dialectics a disputational model of inquiry | 46 |
2 The platonic aspect of dialectic | 48 |
3 Dialectic as evidential costbenefit analysis | 49 |
4 A digression on written exposition | 50 |
5 The isomorphism of the disputational and probative versions of dialectic | 51 |
6 The issue of evaluation and assessment | 53 |
7 The probative isomorphism of controversy and inquiry | 56 |
Facets of dialectical logic | 59 |
abandoning the law of contradiction | 60 |
abandoning ex falso quodlibet | 62 |
abandoning the law of double negation | 64 |
3 The role of certainty | 86 |
4 Scepticism and the rules of language | 90 |
5 Scepticism and praxis | 91 |
6 Scepticism and the methodological turn | 93 |
7 The pragmatic basis of cognition | 95 |
Evolutionary epistemology and the burden of proof | 98 |
2 Humes problem | 102 |
3 Shifting the burden of proof against the sceptic | 103 |
The disputational model of scientific inquiry | 108 |
2 Presumptions in science | 111 |
3 The probative significance of the history of science | 114 |
4 Confirmationism vs falsificationism | 117 |
5 The communal aspect | 121 |
Name Index | 123 |
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