Concept Audits: A Philosophical Method

by Nicholas Rescher

Book Overview

Concept auditing is based on an innovative premise for philosophers: when they address an everyday life conception on the order of knowledge, truth, justice, fairness, beauty, or the like and purport to be dealing with what it involves, then they must honor the existing meanings of these terms. And insofar as the prevailing meaning is being contravened, they must explain how and justify why this is being done. They must, in sum, explain how their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498540414
• ISBN13: 9781498540414
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"