Jurgen Habermas has developed the theory of communicative action primarily in the context of critical social and political theory and discourse ethics. The essays collected in this volume, however, focus on the theory's implications for epistemology and metaphysics. They address two fundamental issues that have not figured prominently in his work since the early 1970s. One is the question of naturalism: How can the ineluctable normativity of the perspective of agents interacting in a linguistically structured lifeworld be reconciled with the contingency of the emergence and evolution of forms of life? The other is a key problem facing epistemological realism after the linguistic turn: How can the assumption that there is an independently existing world be reconciled with the linguistic insight that we cannot have unmediated access to "brute" reality?Truth and Justification collects Habermas's major essays on these topics published since the mid-1990s. They offer detailed discussions of truth and objectivity as well as an account of the representational function of language in terms of the formal-pragmatic framework he has developed. In defending his post-Kantian pragmatism, Habermas draws on both the continental and analytic traditions and endorses a weak naturalism and a form of epistemological realism.
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Once Frege replaced the mentalistic via regia of analyzing sensations, representations, and judgments with a semantic analysis of linguistic expressions and Wittgenstein radicalized the linguistic turn into a paradigm shift,1 Hume and Kant's epistemological questions could have taken on a new, pragmatic significance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intersubjectivist reading, fallibilist proviso, linguistically structured lifeworld, weak naturalism, shared objective world, linguistically disclosed world, assertoric speech acts, linguistic worldviews, intersubjectively shared lifeworld, moral learning processes, inferential semantics, moral language game, ontological connotations, egalitarian universalism, moral validity claims, performative attitude, strong naturalism, revisionary power, reaching mutual understanding, conceptual norms, formal pragmatics, transcendental difference, nominalist conception, communicative presuppositions, rational acceptability Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 11 pages
- On the Pragmatics of Communication (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas on 7 pages
- Truth and Method (Continuum Impacts) by Hans-Georg Gadamer on 7 pages
- Knowledge & Human Interests by Juergen Habermas on 6 pages
- Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jurgen Habermas on 5 pages
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- Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History (Overtures to Biblical Theology) by Leo G. Perdue on page 268, and Back Matter
- Truth and Justification (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Possibility of Discussion: Relativism, Truth And Criticism of Religious Beliefs (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) by Hugo Strandberg on page 112, and Back Matter
- Contemporary Pragmatism (Contemporary Pragmatism 2:1) by John R. Shook (Editor) on page 58, and page 92
- Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science (Contemporary Systems Thinking) by John Mingers in Back Matter
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