Philosophy and Mystification: A Reflection on Nonsense and Clarity

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 apr 1998

Philosophy and Mystification reflects on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, scepticism and the questions of foundations and origins.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415178518
ISBN-10: 0415178517
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Notă biografică

Guy Robinson taught philosophy at the University of Southampton until his early retirement in 1982. He now lives and works in Dublin.

Cuprins

Introduction: Philosophy and mystification 1 Understanding nonsense 2 Following and formalization 3 Infinity 4 Miracles 5 How to tell your friends from machines 6 Nature and necessity 7 Skepticism about skepticism 8 Fool’s intelligence 9 Language and the society of others 10 Deus sive natura: science, nature, and ideology 11 On misunderstanding science 12 History and human nature 13 Newton, Euclid, and the foundation of geometry 14 Coda: philosophy and history

Descriere

Philosophy and Mystification is an extraordinary meta-philosophical work that boldly tackles a series of particular problems in philosophy as a starting point for a reflection on the nature of and point of philosophy itself.

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