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Our fundamental problem : a revolutionary approach to philosophy /
"How can the world we live in and see, touch, hear, and smell, the world of living things, people, consciousness, free will, meaning, and value--how can all of this exist and flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe, made up of nothing but physical entities such as electrons and quar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Our Human World in the Physical Universe Introductory discussion of the problem
- 2 Some Ideas as to How Our Fundamental Problem Is to Be Solved Five approaches to its solution : physicalism, dualism, idealism, naive realism, and the two-aspect view
- 3 How Our Human World Can Exist in the Physical Universe Outline of the two-aspect view
- 4 Is the Universe Physically Comprehensible? Argument for aim-oriented empiricism
- 5 How Can There Be Free Will If Physicalism Is True? Purposive action
- fundamental requirement for free will
- treble comprehensibility
- improbability of free will
- 6 Evolution of Life of Value Darwinian theory helps explain how and why purposive life of value has evolved
- two versions of the theory, purposive and purposeless
- resistance to recognition of purpose in nature explained and criticized
- principle of noncircularity
- sentience, consciousness, and language
- 7 Can Humanity Really Create a Good World? Global problems
- The urgent need for a revolution in our institutions of inquiry
- the Enlightenment
- from knowledge-inquiry to wisdom-inquiry
- 8 What Is of Real Value in Life? Reasons for doubts about value
- value and evolution
- intrinsic value
- value relativism
- value objectivism
- aim-oriented rationalism
- 9 Implications Revolution for philosophy proposed in this book
- basic tasks of philosophy : keep alive thinking about our fundamental problem
- put the problem at the heart of philosophy, education, and academia
- spell out implications for thought and life
- Help turn knowledge-inquiry into wisdom-inquiry
- Appendix Why Philosophy Lost Its Way Some time after Descartes, philosophy lost the plot because of intellectual failures in connection with two of its most basic problems: the mind-body problem and Hume's problem of induction. We need a revolution in philosophy
- integral to the revolution we need in academia as a whole and, of far greater moment, the revolution we need in our human world.