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Historical ontology /

With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hacking, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical ontology
  • Five parables
  • Two kinds of "new historicism" for philosophers
  • The archaeology of Michel Foucault
  • Michel Foucault's immature science
  • Making up people
  • Self-improvement
  • How, why, when, and where did language go public?
  • Night thoughts on philology
  • Was there ever a radical mistranslation?
  • Language, truth, and reason
  • "Style" for historians and philosophers
  • Leibniz and Descartes: proof and eternal truths
  • Wittgenstein as philosophical psychologist
  • Dreams in place.