PARADISE REGAINED

Author: Blackburn, Simon1

Source: Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society, Volume 79, Number 1, July 2005 , pp. 1-14(14)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

In this paper I consider some of the vicissitudes that the epistemology of the empirical world has suffered in the last half-century. I cast doubt on some of the ruling metaphors of the area, and on the flight from empiricism and foundationalism that they have assisted. But I also reject attempts to secure a better epistemology that themselves collaborate with the same fundamental mistakes, and in particular that of a spatial conception of the mind.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-7013.2005.00123.x

Affiliations: 1: Trinity College, Cambridge

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