John Oulton Wisdom

Philosophy and Its Place in Our Culture (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1975, Philosophy and Its Place in Our Culture aims to show what relevance philosophy may have to human affairs. In the course of this study, a number of other important issues are brought to light.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003852933
• Artikelnr.: 69861586

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John Oulton Wisdom

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Modes of Philosophy Introduction: On Mapping the Ground in
Philosophy 1. Mode (1) Philosophy Looks at Scientific Reasoning
(Metascience) 2. Mode (2) The Nature of Human Knowledge (Epistemology) 3.
Mode (3) The Scientific Structure of the World (Embedded Ontology) 4. Mode
(4) Armchair Science (Parascientific Ontology) 5. Mode (5) The Nature of
All Things (Cosmological Ontology) 6. Mode (6) Philosophy as Meaningless
(Meta-ontological Negativism) 7. Mode (7) Philosophy as a Way of Life 8.
Mode (8) Evaluation of Modes of Philosophy Part II: Weeding And Pruning 9.
The Problems of Proof and Disproof 10. On the Refutability of Metaphysics
11. The Refutation of Logical Positivism 12. The Refutation of Semantic
Ontology 13. Evaluation of Refutations and Residues Part III: What Are
Philosophers' Goals? 14. The Problem of Philosophers' Goals 15. Of the
Optimists: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley and Kant 16. Of the
Pessimists: Hume, Schopenhauer and Bradley 17. One Dogma of Apriorism and
Empiricism 18. Social Motives 19. Rationalist Tendencies in Twentieth
Century Thought 20. Anti Rationalist Tendencies in Twentieth Century
Thought 21. The Twentieth Century Sophists 22. The Place of Goals and
Motives in Philosophy Part IV: Philosophy as a Social and Personal
Weltanschauung 23. The Idea of Culture and the Role of Philosophy 24.
Philosophy as a World Outlook 25. The Downfall of Values 26. Ultimate
Social Values: Current Options 27. Pragmatism and the American Mom 28.
Existentialism as a Way of Life 29. The Rationale of Duty 30. Quod Vitae
Sectabor Iter? 31. Philosophy and the Future Weltanschauung of Man and
Society Acknowledgements Index