Conditions of Rational Inquiry: A Study in the Philosophy of Value

by David Pole

Overview

D. Pole, whose Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein appeared in 1958, here makes a new attack on the problem of value-judgement by taking it out of its limited ethical context. Beginning with an examination and criticism of current views that base all moral and other principles on personal choice or decision, he finds a point of departure for his own account of the problem in the claim that rational inquiry of any sort rests on the possibility of evaluation. The place of the one process within the other is then worked out in some detail; and an attempt is made to show how inquiry, as a collective undertaking, involves the progressive search for and establishment of new principles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472505996
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Series:	Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Philosophy
Pages:	229
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Pole is a Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. A Critique of Intuition
II. The Concept of Decision
III. Axiology and the Process of Inquiry
IV. The Development of Judgement
V. Knowledge of Principles
VI. Theory and Conduct
VII. Morality and the Form of Moral Concepts