Objectivity Sans Intelligibility. Hermann Weyl's Symbolic Constructivism

Dissertation, University of Notre Dame (2011)
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Abstract

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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