Claude Buffier and Thomas Reid : Two Common-Sense Philosophers.

All too often it is said that common-sense philosophers fail to justify their appeal to common sense as a philosophical standard, and that they merely repeat one another in the glorification of philosophical trivialities. This book challenges these and other widespread assumptions about common-sense...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marcil-Lacoste, Louise, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: McGill-Queen's University Press 1982.
Temas:
Reid, Thomas, > 1710-1796.
Buffier, Claude, > 1661-1737.
Common sense.
Sens commun.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Electronic books.
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • I: General Introduction
  • II: Claude Buffier
  • 1. The Context of Buffier's Doctrine of Common Sense
  • 2. The Problem of Asserting the Core of Buffier's Philosophy of Common Sense
  • 3. The Problem of Defining Common Sense as Buffier Sees It
  • 4. What Common Sense Is Not
  • 5. What Common Sense Is
  • 6. Buffier's Justification of the Appeal to Common Sense
  • 7. Conclusion
  • III: Thomas Reid
  • 1. Difficulties in Assessing the Core of Reid's Doctrine
  • 2. Reid's Methodological Rules Concerning the Intellectual Powers of Man
  • 3. The Importance of Reid's Decision to Elucidate the Meaning of Common Sense in His "Essay on Judgment"
  • 4. Reid's Elucidation of the Proper Meaning of Common Sense
  • 5. Reid's Analysis of Philosophical Objections to the Common Meaning of Common Sense
  • 6. Reid's Analysis of the Problem of First Principles
  • 7. Reid's Alternative Model in the Treatment of Self-evident Propositions
  • 8. The Background of Reid's Alternative
  • 9. Reid's Codification of Self-evident Propositions
  • 10. Reid's Justification of the Appeal to Common Sense
  • 11. Reid's Understanding of Newton's Methodological Rules
  • 12. Reid's Understanding of Francis Bacon's Methodological Advice
  • 13. The Impact of Reid's Method on His General Doctrine of First Principles
  • 14. Conclusion
  • IV: General Conclusion
  • 1. The Different Views of Buffier and Reid on Introspection
  • 2. The Views of Buffier and Reid on the Most Important Features of the Human Mind
  • 3. The Different Common-Sense Doctrines of Buffier and Reid
  • 4. Two Counterexamples to the Caricatures of Common-Sense Doctrines
  • Appendix: Thomas Reid's Cur226; Prim226; on Common Sense
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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