书名: Philosophy and Mystification: A Reflection on Nonsense and Clarity
作者: Guy Robinson (Author)
出版社: Routledge; First Edition (May 21, 1998)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415178517
ISBN-13: 978-0415178518
Book Description
Philosophy and Mystification is a work of philosophy in and of itself as much as it is a book about philosophy. Its reflections on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, skepticism and the question of foundations and origins. Guy Robinson argues that a conception of philosophy was adopted in the 17th century that required us to see the "world upside-down", creating abstract and mystified entities to explain the ordinary and concrete, requiring us to explain the social in terms of the individual, and the human and purposive in terms of the mechanical, and not only to see nature as a vast mechanism but science as a mechanical activity whose rules it was the business of the philosopher to discover.
Review
"...lucid and engaging....Recommended for collections in Wittgenstein, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science....Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- Choice - Jan 1999
"...this book is engaging. Recommended for collections in Wittgenstein, history of philosophy and philosophy of science.." -- CHOICE
"...this book is historically sensitive and informed." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques
"The provocative nature of this book is part of what makes it one of the half dozen most interesting books in philosophy that I have read in the last twenty years." -- Alasdair MacIntyre, Duke University
"These really are, as I and some others think, exceptional essays. Robinson is a rather interesting and muscular species of Wittgenstein ." -- Bernard Harrison, University of Utah
About the Author
Guy Robinson taught philosophy at the University of Southampton until his early retirement in 1982. He now lives and works in Dublin.
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作者: Guy Robinson (Author)
出版社: Routledge; First Edition (May 21, 1998)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415178517
ISBN-13: 978-0415178518
Book Description
Philosophy and Mystification is a work of philosophy in and of itself as much as it is a book about philosophy. Its reflections on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, skepticism and the question of foundations and origins. Guy Robinson argues that a conception of philosophy was adopted in the 17th century that required us to see the "world upside-down", creating abstract and mystified entities to explain the ordinary and concrete, requiring us to explain the social in terms of the individual, and the human and purposive in terms of the mechanical, and not only to see nature as a vast mechanism but science as a mechanical activity whose rules it was the business of the philosopher to discover.
Review
"...lucid and engaging....Recommended for collections in Wittgenstein, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science....Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- Choice - Jan 1999
"...this book is engaging. Recommended for collections in Wittgenstein, history of philosophy and philosophy of science.." -- CHOICE
"...this book is historically sensitive and informed." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques
"The provocative nature of this book is part of what makes it one of the half dozen most interesting books in philosophy that I have read in the last twenty years." -- Alasdair MacIntyre, Duke University
"These really are, as I and some others think, exceptional essays. Robinson is a rather interesting and muscular species of Wittgenstein ." -- Bernard Harrison, University of Utah
About the Author
Guy Robinson taught philosophy at the University of Southampton until his early retirement in 1982. He now lives and works in Dublin.
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