Abstract
The history of the theory of knowledge confronts us with what appears to be a perpetual “frontier” mentality. No matter how exhaustive or ramified its previous philosophical labors may have been, it seems forever bent on testing the need for still another beginning. That is as true today as it ever was during the period of nearly constant innovation running from Descartes to Kant to Hegel. You have only to think of the startling frequency with which theorists continue to believe themselves to be initiating entirely new beginnings or, finally, to be correcting the hopeless conceptual errors and inadequacies of all past canons. Think, for instance, of Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations (1960) or W.V. Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” (1969); or, more adventurously, Michel Foucault’s Nietzscheanized genealogies (1977) or Paul Churchland’s would-be elimination of the entire “folk” conception of epistemology (1989).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Aron, R.: 1961, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, trans. G. J. Irwin, Beacon Press, Boston.
Bachelard, G.: 1984, The New Scientific Spirit, trans. A. Goldhammer, Beacon Press, Boston.
Bambrough, R.: 1960–61, `Universals and Family Resemblances’Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 60 207–222
Barthes, R.: 1974, S/L, trans. R. Miller, Fairer, Straus, and Giroux, New York.
Beardsley, M. C.: 1970, The Possibility of Criticism, Wayne State University Press, Detroit.
Berlin, 1.: 1976, Vico and Herder, Viking, New York.
Bernstein, R. J.: 1983, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
Brentano, F.: 1973, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint; English ed. L. L. McAllister, Humanities Press, New York.
Carnap, R.: 1959, `Psychology in Physical Language’, trans. G. Shick, in A.J. Ayer (ed.), Logical Positivism, Free Press, Glencoe.
Carnap, R.: 1995, The Unity of Science, trans. M. Black, Thoemmes Press, Bristol.
Cartwright, N.: 1983, How the Laws of Physics Lie, Clarendon, Oxford.
Cassirer, E.: 1953–57, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms,3 vols., trans. R. Manheim, Yale University Press, New Haven.
Chalmers, D. J.: 1996, The Conscious Mind, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Chisholm, R. M.: 1977, Theory of Knowledge, 2“d ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
Chomsky, N.: 1965, `Review of B.F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior’, Language 35, 56–58.
Chomsky, N.: 1986, Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use, Praeger, New York.
Churchland, P. M.: 1989, A Neurocomputational Perspective, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Churchland, P. M.: 1995, The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Collingwood, C. G.: 1978, An Autobiography, Clarendon, Oxford.
Danto, A. C.: 1985, Narrative and Knowledge, Columbia University Press, New York.
Davidson, D.: 1980a, Essays on Actions and Events, Clarendon, Oxford.
Davidson, D.: 1980b, `Mental Events’, in Essays on Actions an Events, Clarendon, Oxford.
Davidson, D.: 1984, `Reality without Reference’, in Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, Clarendon, Oxford.
Davidson, D.: 1986, `A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge’, in E. Lepore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Dennett, D. C.: 1991, Consciousness Explained, Little Brown, Boston.
Devitt, M.: 1991, Reason and Truth, 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Dilthey, W.: 1989, Selected Works, vol. 1, R. Makkreel and F. Rodi (eds.), Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Dretske, F.: 1995, Naturalizing the Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Dummett, M.: 1991a, The Logical Basis of Metaphysics, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Dummett, M.: 1991b, Frege and Other Philosophers, Clarendon, Oxford.
Feyerabend, P. K.: 1975, Against Method, Verso, London.
Fine, A.: 1986, The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Fleck, L.: 1979, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, T. J. Trenn and R. K. Merton (eds.), trans. F. Bradley and T. J. Trenn, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Fodor, J. A.: 1975, The Language of Thought, Thomas Y. Crowell, New York.
Fodor, J. A.: 1983, The Modularity of Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Fodor, J. A.: 1990, A Theory of Content, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Fodor, J. A.: 1998, Concepts, Clarendon, Oxford.
Foucault, M.: 1977, `Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’, in D. F. Bouchard (ed.), Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, trans. D. F. Bouchard and S. Simon, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
Foucault, M.: 1979, Discipline and Punish, trans. A. Sheridan, Vintage, New York.
Frege, G.: 1960, `On Sense and Reference’, in The Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, P. Geach and M. Black (eds.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Gadamer, H.-G.: 1975, Truth and Method, trans. G. Barden and J. Cumming, Seabury Press, New York.
Gadamer, H.-G.: 1976, Philosophical Hermeneutics, ed. and trans. D. E. Linge, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Geach, P.: 1957, Mental Acts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
Habermas, J.: 1988, On the Logic of the Social Sciences, trans. S. Weber Nicholsen and J. A. Stark, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Hacking, I.: 1983, Representing and Intervening, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hegel, G. W. F.: 1977, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Heidegger, M.: 1962, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson, Harper and Row, New York.
Hempel, C. G.: 1965, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, Free Press, New York.
Hirsch, Jr., E.D.: 1967, Validity in Interpretation, Yale University Press, New Haven.
Hitler, A.: 1943, Mein Kampf, trans. R. Manheim, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Husserl, E.: 1960, Cartesian Meditations, trans. D. Cairns, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague. Jones, E.: Hamlet and Oedipus, W.W. Norton, New York.
Kenny, A.: 1963, Action, Emotion and Will, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
Kim, J.: 1993, Supervenience and Mind, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Kim, J.: 1998, Philosophy of Mind, Westview, Boulder.
Kripke, S. A.: 1980, Naming and Necessity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Kuhn, T. S.: 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed., University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Latour, B. and S. Woolgar: 1986, Laboratory Life, 2“d ed., Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Leeds, S.: 1978, `Theories of Reference and Truth’, Erkenntnis 13, 111–129.
Leibniz, G.W.: 1956, The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, H. G. Alexander (ed.), Manchester University Press, Manchester.
Lorenz, K.: 1970–71, Studies in Animal and Human Behaviour,2 vols, trans. R. Martin, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Löwith, K.: 1991, From Hegel to Nietzsche, trans. D. E. Green, Columbia University Press, New York.
Margolis, J. 1984, Culture and Cultural Entities, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
Margolis, J.: 1987, Science without Unity, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Margolis, J.: 1991, The Truth about Relativism, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Margolis, J.: 1992, `Genres, Laws, Canons, Principles’, in M. Hjort (ed.), Rules and Conventions, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Margolis, J.: 1993, The Flux of History and the Flux of Science, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Margolis, J.: 1995, Historied Thought, Constructed World, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Margolis, J.: 1997a, `Relativism and Cultural Relativity’, JTLA (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics ) 22, 19–34.
Margolis, J.: 1997b, `Reconciling Relativism and Cultural Realism’, JTLA (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics ) 22, 53–68.
McDowell, J.: 1996, Mind and World, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Moore, G.E.: 1978, `Proof of the External World’, in Philosophical Papers, George Allen und Unwin, London.
Oppenheim, P. and H. Putnam: 1958, `Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis’, in H. Feigl, M. Striven, and G. Maxwell (eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 2, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
Popper, K. R.: 1959, The Poverty of Historicism, 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
Popper, K. R.: 1983, Realism and the Aims of Science, W.W. Bartley III, (ed. ), Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa.
Premack, D.: 1978, Intelligence in Ape and Man, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale.
Putnam, H.: 1987, The Many Faces of Realism, Open Court, LaSalle.
Putnam, H.: 1994, `Sense, Nonsense, and the Senses: An Inquiry into the Powers of the Human Mind’, Journal of Philosophy 91, 445–517.
Quine, W. V.: 1960, Word and Object, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Quine, W. V.: 1969, `Epistemology Naturalized’, in Ontological Relativity, Columbia University Press, New York.
Quine, W. V.: 1992, Pursuit of Truth, 2 nd ed., Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Ramsey, F. P.: 1931, The Foundations of Mathematics, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
Ranke, L. von: 1983, The Theory and Practice of History, trans. Wilma A. Iggers, G. G. Iggers and K. von Moltke (eds.), Irvington, New York.
Ricoeur, P.: 1981, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, ed. and trans. J. R. Thompson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Rorty, R.: 1967, `Relations, Internal and External’, in P. Edwards (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 7, Macmillan, New York.
Rudner, R.: 1966, Philosophy of Social Science, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs. Russell, B.: 1905, `On Denoting’, Mind 14, 479–493.
Russell, B.: 1912, The Problems of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, London.
Schleiermacher, F. D. E: 1977, Hermeneutics: The Handwritten Manuscripts, H. Kimmerle (ed.), trans. J. Duke and J. Frostman, Scholars Press, Missoula.
Searle, J. R.: 1958, `Proper Names’, Mind 67, 166–173.
Searle, J R.: 1992, The Rediscovery of the Mind,MIT Press, Cambridge.
Searle, J. R.: 1995, The Construction of Social Reality, Free Press, New York.
Shapin, S.: 1996, The Scientific Revolution, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Spengler, 0.: 1926, The Decline of the West, 2 vols., trans. C. F. Atkinson, Alfred A. Knoff, New York.
Strawson, P. F.: 1958, `On Referring’, Mind 59, 320–344.
Taylor, C.: 1964, The Explanation of Behaviour, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
Thomson, G.: 1941, Aeschylus and Athens, Lawrence and Wishart, London.
Toynbee, A.: 1935, A Study of History, vols. 1–3, Oxford University Press, Oxford. van Fraassen, B. C.: 1980, The Scientific Image, Clarendon, Oxford.
Wittgenstein, L.: 1953, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Wittgenstein, L.: 1958, The Blue and Brown Books, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Wittgenstein, L.: 1972, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Margolis, J. (2004). Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In: Niiniluoto, I., Sintonen, M., Woleński, J. (eds) Handbook of Epistemology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-1986-9_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-1986-9_17
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-015-6969-9
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-1986-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive