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Common Grounds Without Foundations

A Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Disagreements Across Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Traditions

  • Hardback
  • 384 pages
  • Publisher: Gorgias Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

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In Common Grounds without Foundations, David Kratz Mathies offers an alternative, fallibilist model of moral reasoning rooted in the American Pragmatic tradition. Additional resources drawn from Chinese philosophy, Jain epistemology, modern philosophy of mathematics, and the Gadamerian hermeneutical tradition serve both to corroborate the argumentation and to provide examples of continuities in reasoning that cross the boundaries of disparate traditions. Ironically, the very success of arguments for the tradition-dependent nature of rationality belies their conclusions-even religious claims make their appeal with some level of public reason-and a nonfoundationalist theory of knowledge more accurately reflects both our scientific progress and our projects of everyday enquiry. Ultimately, an analysis of our best epistemic practices provides us with prima facie biases in favor of both diversity and free speech (without the need to appeal to any tradition-dependent axioms like inherent worth, human dignity, or the possession of a soul)-to be concretized in institutions like human rights and democracy.
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  • Author

    David Kratz Mathies

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Gorgias Press

  • Published

    March 2015

  • Weight

    731g

  • Page Count

    384

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781607240426

  • ISBN-10

    1607240424

  • Eden Code

    4647536

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