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Author : Søren Overgaard,Paul Gilbert,Stephen Burwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521193412
A clear and comprehensive introduction to what philosophy is, how it should be done and why we should do it.
Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784782757
Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thought In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world becoming philosophical and philosophy becoming worldly” as a leitmotif, examining the relation between Hegelian–Marxist supersession and Nietzschean overcoming. Metaphilosophy is conceived of as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a programme of radical worldwide change. The book demonstrates Lefebvre’s threefold debt to Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, but it also brings a number of other figures into the conversation, including Sartre, Heidegger and Axelos. A key text in Lefebvre’s oeuvre, Metaphilosophy is also a milestone in contemporary thinking about philosophy’s relation to the world.
Author : Søren Overgaard,Paul Gilbert,Stephen Burwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107310483
What is philosophy? How should we do it? Why should we bother to? These are the kinds of questions addressed by metaphilosophy - the philosophical study of the nature of philosophy itself. Students of philosophy today are faced with a confusing and daunting array of philosophical methods, approaches and styles and also deep divisions such as the notorious rift between analytic and Continental philosophy. This book takes readers through a full range of approaches - analytic versus Continental, scientistic versus humanistic, 'pure' versus applied - enabling them to locate and understand these different ways of doing philosophy. Clearly and accessibly written, it will stimulate reflection on philosophical practice and will be invaluable for students of philosophy and other philosophically inclined readers.
Author : Jerry H. Gill
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : University Press of America
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040302197
Author : Paul Horwich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199588879
Paul Horwich presents a bold new interpretation of Wittgenstein's later work. He argues that it is Wittgenstein's radically anti-theoretical metaphilosophy - and not his identification of the meaning of a word with its use - that underpins his discussions of specific issues concerning language, the mind, mathematics, knowledge, art, and religion.
Author : Paul S. Loeb,Matthew Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422253
Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche's desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.
Author : Christopher Daly
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551119342
An Introduction to Philosophical Methods is the first book to survey the various methods that philosophers use to support their views. Rigorous yet accessible, the book introduces and illustrates the methodological considerations that are involved in current philosophical debates. Where there is controversy, the book presents the case for each side, but highlights where the key difficulties with them lie. While eminently student-friendly, the book makes an important contribution to the debate regarding the acceptability of the various philosophical methods, and so it will also be of interest to more experienced philosophers.
Author : Bojana Mladenović
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231520744
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Its influence reaches far beyond the philosophy of science, and its key terms, such as “paradigm shift,” “normal science,” and “incommensurability,” are now used in both academic and public discourse without any reference to Kuhn. However, Kuhn’s philosophy is still often misunderstood and underappreciated. In Kuhn’s Legacy, Bojana Mladenović offers a novel analysis of Kuhn’s central philosophical project, focusing on his writings after Structure. Mladenović argues that Kuhn’s historicism was always coupled with a firm and consistent antirelativism but that it was only in his mature writings that Kuhn began to systematically develop an original account of scientific rationality. She reconstructs this account, arguing that Kuhn sees the rationality of science as a form of collective rationality. At the purely formal level, Kuhn’s conception of scientific rationality prohibits obviously irrational beliefs and choices and requires reason-responsiveness as well as the uninterrupted pursuit of inquiry. At the substantive, historicized level, it rests on a distinctly pragmatist mode of justification compatible with a notion of contingent but robust scientific progress. Mladenović argues that Kuhn’s epistemology and his metaphilosophy both represent a creative and fruitful continuation of the tradition of American pragmatism. Kuhn’s Legacy demonstrates the vitality of Kuhn’s philosophical project and its importance for the study of the philosophy and history of science today.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791481813
While the pursuit of philosophy "of" studies—of science, of art, of politics—has blossomed, the philosophy of philosophy remains a comparatively neglected domain. In this book, Nicholas Rescher fills this gap by offering a study in methodology aimed at providing a clear view of the scope and limits of philosophical inquiry. He argues that philosophy's inability to resolve all of the problems of the field does not preclude the prospect of achieving a satisfactory resolution of many or even most of them.
Author : Giuseppina D'Oro,Søren Overgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107121522
The volume provides clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The book gives equal weight to analytical and continental approaches, and pays attention to approaches that are often overlooked.
Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107039780
The definitive collection of the early work of one of the most influential and original philosophers of our time.
Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192555458
What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy's ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standards similar to those used in the natural and social sciences. He also shows how logical rigour can be understood as a way of enhancing the explanatory power of philosophical theories. Drawing on the history of philosophy to provide a track record of philosophical thinking's successes and failures, Williamson overturns widely held dogmas about the distinctive nature of philosophy in comparison to the sciences, demystifies its methods, and considers the future of the discipline. From thought experiments, to deduction, to theories, this little book will cause you to totally rethink what philosophy is.
Author : Sarah A. Mattice
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739192214
Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of language—metaphor—gives shape and boundary to the landscape of the discipline. The book examines metaphors of combat, play, and aesthetic experience and emphasizes how the choices we make in philosophical language are deeply intertwined with what we think philosophy is and how it should be practiced. Drawing on a broad range of resources, from cognitive linguistics and hermeneutics to aesthetics and Chinese philosophy, Mattice's argument provides insight into the evolution and future of philosophy itself.
Author : Daniel Cohnitz,Luis Estrada-González
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107527724
Philosophy of logic is a fundamental part of philosophical study, and one which is increasingly recognized as being immensely important in relation to many issues in metaphysics, metametaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of language. This textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to topics including the objectivity of logical inference rules and its relevance in discussions of epistemological relativism, the revived interest in logical pluralism, the question of logic's metaphysical neutrality, and the demarcation between logic and mathematics. Chapters in the book cover the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of logic, and allow students to understand the philosophical relevance of these debates without having to contend with complex technical arguments. This will be a major new resource for students working on logic, as well as for readers seeking a better understanding of philosophy of logic in its wider context.
Author : Tuomas E. Tahko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107077294
This is the first systematic student introduction to metametaphysics, examining the nature, foundations and methodology of metaphysical inquiry.