Objectivity Sans Intelligibility. Hermann Weyl's Symbolic Constructivism

Dissertation, University of Notre Dame (2011)
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A new form of skepticism is described, which holds that objectivity and understanding are incompossible ideals of modern science. This is attributed to Weyl, hence its name: Weylean skepticism. Two general defeat strategies are then proposed, one of which is rejected.

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Inference to the Best Explanation.Peter Lipton - 1991 - London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group.

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