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Conditions of Rational Inquiry: A Study in the Philosophy of Value

Hardback

Main Details

Title Conditions of Rational Inquiry: A Study in the Philosophy of Value
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Pole
SeriesBloomsbury Academic Collections: Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:229
Category/GenrePhilosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9781472505996
ClassificationsDewey:160
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 7 November 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

D. Pole, whose Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein appeared in 1958, here makes a new attack on the problem of value-judgement by taking it out of its limited ethical context. Beginning with an examination and criticism of current views that base all moral and other principles on personal choice or decision, he finds a point of departure for his own account of the problem in the claim that rational inquiry of any sort rests on the possibility of evaluation. The place of the one process within the other is then worked out in some detail; and an attempt is made to show how inquiry, as a collective undertaking, involves the progressive search for and establishment of new principles.

Author Biography

David Pole is a Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London.