The matter of high words naturalism, normativity, and the postwar sage /

Ambitious scientific accounts of human thought and behaviour have been a mainstay of American intellectual culture since World War II. But if such theories are true, what is the status of our highest words, the vocabularies that orient and inspire our actions? What forms are available today for expl...

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Main Author: Chodat, Robert, 1970-
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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