What Makes a Philosopher Great? (eBook, ePUB)

Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers
Redaktion: Hetherington, Stephen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a scholarly yet accessible volume, blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317386834
• Artikelnr.: 50214079

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS

Preface and acknowledgements

List of contributors

1. Philosophical greatness: Introducing the very idea


Stephen Hetherington


2. Plato, Platonism, and the history of philosophy


Lloyd P. Gerson


3. Zhuangzi's suggestiveness: Sceptical questions


Karyn Lai


4. Aristotle as systematic philosopher: Essence, necessity, and explanation in theory and practice


David Bronstein


5. Attention to greatness: Buddhaghosa


Jonardon Ganeri


6. Aquinas's complex web


Jeffrey Hause


7. Descartes as a great philosopher: Comprehensive physics, mechanistic embodiment, and methodological systematicity


Gary Hatfield


8. Émilie du Châtelet on women's minds and education


Karen Detlefsen


9. What's so great about Hume?


Don Garrett


10. Is Kant a great moral philosopher?


Allen Wood


11. 'How is metaphysics possible?' Kant's great question and his great answer


Nicholas F. Stang


12. Nietzsche: This time it's personal


Ken Gemes


13. What makes Peirce a great philosopher?


Cheryl Misak


14. Wittgenstein's un-ruley solution to the problem of philosophy

David Macarthur

Rezensionen

"What is the difference between a merely good philosopher and a great one? Lists of the great (and usually dead) philosophers presuppose an answer to this question but it's far from obvious what the answer is. The distinguished contributors to this terrific volume advance our understanding of what great philosophy is and explain the greatness of some of the greatest philosophers."

--Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick