Philosophy after Objectivity

Philosophers have traditionally sought objective knowledge. This text uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other theoretical views.

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Philosophers have traditionally sought objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one's conceiving of them. Philosophy After Objectivity uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other theoretical views. It argues that we cannot meet skeptics' typical demands for non-question begging support for claims to objective truth, and that, therefore, we should not regard our supporting reasons as resistant to skeptical challenges.