书名: Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For?
作者: Mary Midgley (Author)
出版社: Routledge; New edition (May 23, 1991)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415028302
ISBN-13: 978-0415028301
Book Description
In Wisdom, Information and Wonder, Mary Midgley tackles the question at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for? The author rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in today's high technology world and argues cogently for the primary importance of understanding over the acquisition of information. Thinking itself, she argues, needs to strengthen the connection between theory and practice.
Midgley challenges us to re-examine the protective barriers built to isolate "science'" from other forms of inquiry, and each particular science from its neighbors. More urgently still, philosophy itself needs to stop being treated as an obscure specialty, and take up its role as the key to understanding.
Review
". . . it is a well-written, witty, and entertaining account of the absurdity of most recent philosophy that she offers us . . ." -- The Canadian Catholic Review
"Readers disturbed by the philosophical turn toward `highbrow technical battles' will welcome this timely and insightful account." -- Choice - July 1989
About the Author
Mary Midgley was until 1980 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the author of Wickedness (Ark, 1984) and Evolution as a Religion (Methuen, 1985).
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作者: Mary Midgley (Author)
出版社: Routledge; New edition (May 23, 1991)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415028302
ISBN-13: 978-0415028301
Book Description
In Wisdom, Information and Wonder, Mary Midgley tackles the question at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for? The author rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in today's high technology world and argues cogently for the primary importance of understanding over the acquisition of information. Thinking itself, she argues, needs to strengthen the connection between theory and practice.
Midgley challenges us to re-examine the protective barriers built to isolate "science'" from other forms of inquiry, and each particular science from its neighbors. More urgently still, philosophy itself needs to stop being treated as an obscure specialty, and take up its role as the key to understanding.
Review
". . . it is a well-written, witty, and entertaining account of the absurdity of most recent philosophy that she offers us . . ." -- The Canadian Catholic Review
"Readers disturbed by the philosophical turn toward `highbrow technical battles' will welcome this timely and insightful account." -- Choice - July 1989
About the Author
Mary Midgley was until 1980 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the author of Wickedness (Ark, 1984) and Evolution as a Religion (Methuen, 1985).
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