A Case Study in Ad Hominem Arguments: Fichte's Science of Knowledge

A Case Study in Ad Hominem Arguments: Fichte's Science of Knowledge

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A Case Study in Ad Hominem Arguments: Fichte's Science of Knowledge

dc.contributor.author	Suber, Peter
dc.date.accessioned	2010-03-08T16:04:45Z
dc.date.issued	1990
dc.identifier.citation	Suber, Peter. 1990. A case study in ad hominem arguments: Fichte's science of knowledge. Philosophy and Rhetoric 23(1): 12-42.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0031-8213	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1527-2079	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3715475
dc.description.abstract	Fichte's narrative persona in the Science of Knowledge is obnoxious. I try to disentangle regrettable signs of immaturity and paranoia from justifiable ad hominem arguments. Many of Fichte's ad hominem attacks on metaphysical realists are justified by his metaphysics and epistemology. We cannot criticize an important class of these arguments unless we criticize his epistemology and metaphysics. They are not matters of "style" separable from "substance". I show this inseparability, and point out a few inconsistencies, but otherwise do not comment on Fichte's "substance".	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Other Research Unit	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Penn State University Press	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/fichte.htm	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_submis_pr.html
dash.license	LAA
dc.subject	philosophy
dc.title	A Case Study in Ad Hominem Arguments: Fichte's Science of Knowledge	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Accepted Manuscript	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Philosophy and Rhetoric	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Suber, Peter
dc.date.available	2010-03-08T16:04:45Z