THE UNMAKING OF WISDOM

How We Compromise Reason’s Capacity to Transform the Human Condition

Authors

  • Andy Norman Carnegie Mellon University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v18i2.63

Keywords:

Socrates, humanism, rationalism

Abstract

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Author Biography

  • Andy Norman, Carnegie Mellon University

    Andy Norman, Ph.D., teaches philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is completing a book that fully develops the hypothesis explored in his essay. He’d like to hear from thoughtful readers, potential collaborators, and interested book publishers ([email protected]).

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Bartley, William Warren. The Retreat to Commitment (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1984).

Bonjour, Laurence. The Structure of Empirical Knowledge (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), 18.

Goldman, Alvin. “What is Justified Belief?” in Justification and Knowledge, ed. G. Pappas (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1979), 2.

Kretzmann, Norman, and Eleonore Stump, eds. 1993. The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

MacIntyre, Alasdair. “Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative, and the Philosophy of Science” in The Tasks of Philosophy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Norman, Andy. "Regress and the Doctrine of Epistemic Original Sin." The Philosophical Quarterly 47, no. 189 (1997): 477-494.

Toulmin, Stephen. The Uses of Argument (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958), 11-12.

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Published

2013-10-09

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Norman, A. (2013). THE UNMAKING OF WISDOM: How We Compromise Reason’s Capacity to Transform the Human Condition. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 18(2), 63-88. https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v18i2.63