The Realm of Reason

by Christopher Peacocke

Book Overview

The Realm of Reason is a manifesto for a new rationalism in philosophy. Christopher Peacocke develops an original theory of what makes a thinker entitled to form a given belief. The theory is articulated in three principles of rationalism, which together imply that all entitlement has an element that is independent of experience. Peacocke elaborates this rationalism in detail for the classical issues of perceptual knowledge, induction, and the status...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199270732
• ISBN13: 9780199270736
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"