Are foundations for knowledge possible after post-modernism?

Renowned as a philosopher of science, Rom Harré examines three foundationalist trends in Western thought after post modernism: the possibility of moral diversity without anarchy (Holiday); phenomenology without subjectivism (Wittgenstein): and multiplicity of realities without relativism (Bohr).

Rom Harré is professor emeritus of philosophy, Oxford University, England and professor of psychology, Georgetown University. He is the author of over forty books in both the natural and social sciences including, most recently, The Singular Self (1998).

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