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Toward a philosophical theory of everything : contributions to the structural-systematic philosophy / Alan White

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White, Alan, 1951-
Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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1st [edition].
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Contents
FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Lorenz B. Puntel; 1 Preliminaries; 1.1 An initial clarification of this book's subtitle; 1.2 An initial clarification of this book's title; 1.3 Preliminary remarks on methodology; 1.4 A philosophically consequent stylistic peculiarity; 1.5 The structure of this book; 2 Theoretical frameworks; 2.1 "Theoretical framework"; 2.2 The SSP as a network; 2.3 Seven central theses concerning theoretical frameworks; 2.4 A family of theoretical frameworks rejected by the SSRPP., 2.5 The SSP's abstract theoretical framework2.6 Concretizing the SSP's theoretical framework; 3 Truth; 3.1 The task; 3.2 Substantialism and deflationism; 3.3 The basic error behind all deflationary theories of truth; 3.4 The truth term; 3.5 It is true that ... if and only if; 4 Knowledge; 4.1 The inadequacy of the definition of knowledge as justified true belief; 4.2 The SSP's definition of knowledge; 4.3 False knowledge; 5 Theoreticity, practicity, affectivity; 5.1 Modes of engagement; 5.2 Theoretical, practical, and aesthetic values; 5.3 Sentences and operators., and 6 Human freedom6.1 Terminological clarifications; 6.2 Adding a theory of freedom to the SSP; 6.3 A theory of freedom for the SSP; 6.4 Human freedom and systematic philosophy; 7 Beauty; 7.1 Callological delight; 7.2 Complex callological delight; 7.3 Callological delight and beauty; 7.4 Callological delight and callological evaluation; 7.5 All factings are beautiful; 7.6 Degrees of beauty; 7.7 Ugliness; 7.8 Callological disagreement; 8 Being; 8.1 Articulating being; 8.2 Theories of being and theories of be-ers; 8.3 Central aspects of the SSP's theory of being.
Summary
Moral values are real-we don't just make them up. Beauty is in the world-it's not just in the eye of the beholder. You are free-what you do is not always determined by electrochemical processes in your brain. And the universe we live in is God's creation. These are radical claims. But they are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy because they are almost always considered in relative isolation from one another. This book shows that when they are considered in conjunction, they gain mutual support. And it shows this both clearly and concisely. But its systematic approach to philosophy also.
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1623560349 (electronic bk.)
9781623560348 (electronic bk.)
9781623566272
1623566274
9781623567187 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1623567181 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781623566340
1623566347
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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