"The View from Within" from Without
On Changing One's Normative Framework
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-3-16-164572-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rationality demands that we change our minds when we find our thinking violates the normative frameworks we embrace, or when our normative frameworks themselves are found wanting. But how can we change our minds about the very standards we rely on to change our minds? This paradox is crucial to philosophers and matters to all thoughtful practitioners. It must be resolved if we are to understand how, say, scientists, religious believers, politicians, and psychotherapists working within their respective frameworks may come to reflect rationally on their orientation itself.
In "The View from Within," philosophers Menachem Fisch and Yitzhak Benbaji offer a solution of rigor and elegance, showing how dialogue with critics can foster creative ambivalence that lets us question our own commitments.
The present volume brings together the thought and reflection of leading philosophers, social scientists, scholars of religion, and historians, each addressing the implications of "The View from Within" from her or his own vantage and perspective.
In "The View from Within," philosophers Menachem Fisch and Yitzhak Benbaji offer a solution of rigor and elegance, showing how dialogue with critics can foster creative ambivalence that lets us question our own commitments.
The present volume brings together the thought and reflection of leading philosophers, social scientists, scholars of religion, and historians, each addressing the implications of "The View from Within" from her or his own vantage and perspective.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Tübingen
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Saddle-stitched
Library binding
Card cover
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 23.2 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Thickness: 2 cm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-16-164572-3 (9783161645723)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Born 1959; member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; Fellow at Harvard University, Columbia Universities, University of Pennsylvania and MIT; chairs the Program in Science, Technology & Society at Bar-Ilan University.
Born 1970; graduate studies at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University; post-doctorate studies at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; researcher at The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Content
Noah Efron/Ariel Furstenberg
: Introduction -
Alfred Tauber
: The View from Within: A Cognitivist Account -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Alfred Tauber -
Elijah Millgram
: Some Uses of Reflective Equilibrium -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Elijah Millgram -
Eli Friedlander
: Internal Criticism and the Dynamics of Reason in Kant's Aesthetics -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Eli Friedlander -
Jeremy Wanderer
: On Changing Your Mind -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Jeremy Wanderer -
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
: Fiction, Dialogue, Otherness: Self Criticism and Rabbinic Anecdote -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Ishay Rosen-Zvi -
Myles W. Jackson
: Natural Philosophers and Artisanal Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Myles W. Jackson -
Niccolò Guicciardini
: On the Invisibility and Impact of Robert Hooke's Theory of Gravitation -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Niccolò Guicciardini -
Simon Goldhill
: The Insider's Joke -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Simon Goldhill -
Kimberley Patton
: Rational Rabbits and Semispecific Pigeons -
Menachem Fisch
: Reply to Kimberley Patton