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The failures of philosophy : a historical essay /
"Taking the long view of the history of philosophy, The Failures of Philosophy shows how philosophy has in fact collapsed several times, been completely abandoned, sometimes for centuries, and been replaced by something quite different from philosophy. The book focuses on what are historically...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. The rise and fall of philosophy in antiquity. Chapter 1. The emergence of philosophy. Coming to terms with the world ; A presocratic genealogy ; The transition to philosophy ; Outwitting opponents vs intellectual morality ; The metaphysics of morals ; Moral complexity
- Chapter 2. Metaphysics as a form of understanding. Explanation by essential properties ; Logic as a route to understanding ; Epistemology and morality
- Chapter 3. Philosophy's loss of autonomy. The good life ; The undisturbed life ; The vagaries of Platonism ; The Christian assimilation of philosophy
- Part II. Philosophy re-purposed as the ultimate arbiter. Chapter 4. The creation of an autonomous role for philosophy. Philosophy as a tool of theology ; The revival of Aristotle ; The role of metaphysics ; Losing control: Renaissance naturalism ; Regaining control: the abandonment of Aristotle ; The persona of the new natural philosopher
- Chapter 5. From natural philosophy to epistemology. Reconfiguring knowledge ; Optics and representationalism ; Knowledge of the world ; Does natural philosophy replace sense perception?
- Chapter 6. Reason versus sensibility. Contact with the world ; Moral diversity and moral complexity ; Beyond philosophy?
- Part III. The decline of philosophy and its re-purposing as metascience. Chapter 7. The retreat from philosophy. The perils of metaphysics ; Medicine of the mind ; Philosophy and the shaping of character ; The collapse of the standing of philosophy
- Chapter 8. The search for a theory of everything. Philosophy as a theory of everything ; All or nothing ; Science as a theory of everything ; The quantification of morality
- Chapter 9. Science assimilates philosophy. Philosophy as a metatheory of science ; The logical structure of the world ; Rethinking the nature of philosophy
- Conclusion.