Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled World
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Description
Blurred Visions fills an important gap in the literature on applied philosophy. It explores the relationship between ideological disputes and evidence and attempts to establish the ways in which the intractability of some ideological disputes is a function of the disputants adopting the notion of brute evidence, and the extent to which a change of epistemological venue might affect the resolution and prevention of ideological disputes. It declares that scientific theory and ideology are conceptual frameworks that allow us to make sense of the world that we live in, and contends that recognizing the ideology-ladenness of facts and observations will facilitate the resolution of these disputes by depolarizing their argumentation, thereby making it less likely that they will incite acts of armed aggression.
ISBN
978-0820424682
Publication Date
2001
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing
City
New York, New York
Department
Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Conces, Rory J., "Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled World" (2001). Faculty Books and Monographs. 58.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/facultybooks/58
Comments
San Francisco State University series in philosophy, v. 2.