Philosophy and Mystification

A Reflection on Nonsense and Clarity

Guy Robinson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-75741-6 (ISBN)

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Philosophy and Mystification is an extraordinary meta-philosophical work that boldly tackles a series of particular problems in philosophy as a starting point for a reflection on the nature of and point of philosophy itself.

Philosophy and Mystification reflects on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, scepticism and the questions of foundations and origins.

Guy Robinson taught philosophy at the University of Southampton until his early retirement in 1982. He now lives and works in Dublin.

Introduction: Philosophy and mystification 1 Understanding nonsense 2 Following and formalization 3 Infinity 4 Miracles 5 How to tell your friends from machines 6 Nature and necessity 7 Skepticism about skepticism 8 Fool’s intelligence 9 Language and the society of others 10 Deus sive natura: science, nature, and ideology 11 On misunderstanding science 12 History and human nature 13 Newton, Euclid, and the foundation of geometry 14 Coda: philosophy and history

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.2.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-415-75741-X / 041575741X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-75741-6 / 9780415757416
Zustand	Neuware