TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldstick,Daniel
TI  - Reason, Truth and Reality
SN  - 9780802095947
AV  - BC177 
U1  - 128/.33 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Rationalism
KW  - Reason
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Rationalism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Dan Goldstick's Reason, Truth, and Reality addresses two questions: what sort of world do we inhabit? and what moral obligations do we have? To answer the questions Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defense of pre-Kantian rationalism. Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning, he asks what must hold good for reason so characterized to be a dependable guide to truth. The conclusions Goldstick draws are threefold. First of all, the argument points to continuous deterministic causality throughout space and time. In the second place, a case is made for universal impermanence. And thirdly, Goldstick claims to establish a basis for the right within a version of utilitarianism supporting the maximum long-term promotion of people's interests. The discussion takes in such traditional rationalist themes as aprioricity, conceivability, and antiscepticism, and such analytic topics as belief-and-desire, truthvaluelessness, and epistemic reliability
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ER  -