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Redirecting Philosophy : The Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442679108
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Redirecting PhilosophyDDC classification:
  • 121
LOC classification:
  • BD161 .M496 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part I: Prelude -- 1 Scepticism -- 2 Truth -- 3 Data -- 4 Reality -- Part II: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes -- 5 Limits of Sociology: Wittgenstein, Bloor, and Barnes -- 6 Primitives and Paradigms: Winch and Kuhn -- 7 Anarchy and Falsification: Feyerabend and Popper -- 8 The Self-immolation of Scientism: Sellars and Rorty -- Part III: Continental Drift -- 9 Consciousness and Existence: Husserl and Heidegger -- 10 Deconstruction and the Ubiquity of Power: Derrida and Foucault -- 11 An Unstable Compromise: Habermas -- Part IV: Recovering the Tradition -- 12 How Right Plato Was -- 13 On Being an Aristotelian -- 14 Two Methods: Descartes and Lonergan -- 15 Conclusion -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: An insightful and fully up-to-date guide to the philosophy and the theory of science, Meynell's book will be of outstanding value as a course book in both graduate and undergraduate studies.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part I: Prelude -- 1 Scepticism -- 2 Truth -- 3 Data -- 4 Reality -- Part II: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes -- 5 Limits of Sociology: Wittgenstein, Bloor, and Barnes -- 6 Primitives and Paradigms: Winch and Kuhn -- 7 Anarchy and Falsification: Feyerabend and Popper -- 8 The Self-immolation of Scientism: Sellars and Rorty -- Part III: Continental Drift -- 9 Consciousness and Existence: Husserl and Heidegger -- 10 Deconstruction and the Ubiquity of Power: Derrida and Foucault -- 11 An Unstable Compromise: Habermas -- Part IV: Recovering the Tradition -- 12 How Right Plato Was -- 13 On Being an Aristotelian -- 14 Two Methods: Descartes and Lonergan -- 15 Conclusion -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

An insightful and fully up-to-date guide to the philosophy and the theory of science, Meynell's book will be of outstanding value as a course book in both graduate and undergraduate studies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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