Eugen Fischer

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy (eBook, PDF)

Outline of a Philosophical Revolution

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the mind and perception, and on thinkers including Locke, Berkeley and Ayer, the book demonstrates how such autonomous habits of thought systematically generate unsound intuitions and philosophical delusions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134322251
• Artikelnr.: 43821389

Autorenporträt

Eugen Fischer, BPhil, DPhil (Oxford), is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Linguistic Creativity: Exercises in Philosophical Therapy (2000) and has co-edited Wittgenstein at Work: Method in the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge 2004, paperback 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Some Perplexing Discoveries Part 1: Philosophical Pictures
1. Philosophical Pictures: The Birth of 'The Mind' 2. Through Pictures to
Problems: Minds and Bodies 3. Pictures' Effects: From 'Secondary Qualities'
to 'Perceptions' Part 2: Philosophical Delusions 4. The Power of Pictures:
Berkeley's Approach 5. Self-Perpetuating Absurdity: Berkeley Defends
'Perceptions' 6. Philosophical Delusions: Ayer Reinvents 'Perceptions'
Part 3: Therapeutic Philosophy 7. Two Turns: A New Vision of Philosophy 8.
Linguistic Analysis as Therapy: Austin on 'Perceptions' 9. Self-Reflection
as Therapy: Wittgenstein on Understanding