The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader

Writings on Critical Thinking

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-07374-6 (ISBN)

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What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like “human nature”—a term that has played its role in rhetoric, but that does not appear to have a definite, agreed-upon meaning? Indeed we can learn a great deal about some of the most influential modern philosophers, from the Enlightenment to Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V.O. Quine, by examining what they have to say about common sense, whilst the anthropologist Clifford Geertz observed that common sense “has become a central category, almost the central category, in a wide range of modern philosophical systems.”

This book investigates the nature of common sense through a selection of key writings on epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, meta-ethics and the philosophy of economics and political philosophy. The authors included are representative of the Scottish School, such as David Hume, the Ordinary Language School, and members of the Analytic tradition, including Karl Popper, but they also incorporate thinkers like John Dewey from the American pragmatist tradition, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, recent popular writers on economics, and even pamphleteers, from Thomas Paine to contemporary engaged journalists.

This is the first reader to provide such a comprehensive overview of the central writings on common sense. It features review questions and further reading lists at the end of each section.

Markar Melkonian is Lecturer in Philosophy, California State University, USA

acknowledgements

Preface: What This Reader Is (Not) About

General Introduction: Paradoxes of Plain Thinking

Part One: Anti-Skeptical

Introduction

i) An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764)
Thomas Reid

ii) A Defense of Common Sense (1925)
G.E. Moore

iii) From On Certainty (1951)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

iv) The Plain Truth about Common Sense (1995)
Mark Kingwell

v) Philosophy and Ordinary Experience (1999)
Stanley Rosen

Part Two: Common Sense and Science

Introduction

i) Common Sense and Science (1948)
John Dewey

ii) The Scope and Language of Science (1955)
W.V.O. Quine

iii) Two Faces of Common Sense (1973)
Karl R. Popper

iv) Why Scientists Shouldn’t Be Surprised by the Popularity of Intelligent Design (2006)
Scott O. Lilienfeld

Part Three: Common Sense and Religion

Introduction

i) A Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God (1705)
Samuel Clarke

ii) Good Sense without God (1772)
Baron d’Holbach

iii)From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Completed 1776)
David Hume

iv) Is Belief in God Properly Basic? (1981)
Alvin Plantinga

Part Four: Common Sense and Morality

Introduction

i)The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Adam Smith

ii)Methods of Ethics (1874)
Henry Sidgwick

iii)Ethics and Common Sense (1986)
Marcus G. Singer

iv)Common-Sense Morality and Utilitarianism (1992)
J. Moreh

Part Five: Common Sense and Economics

Introduction

i)From Principles of Political Economy (1848)
John Stuart Mill

ii) Corporate Social Responsibility and Income Inequality (2005, 2006)
Gary Becker and Richard A. Posner

iii) Common Sense and the Depoliticization of the Economic (2008)
Jacinda Swanson

iv) Common-Sense Neoliberalism (2013)
Stuart Hall and Alan O’Shea

Part Six: Nothing More Political

Introduction

i)From Common Sense (January, 1776)
Thomas Paine

ii)From Plain Truth (March, 1776)
Lt. Col. James Chalmers

iii)The Study of Philosophy (after 1926)
Antonio Gramsci

iv) Inherit the Whirlwind (2004, 2005)
Thomas Frank

bibliography
index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	552 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-350-07374-1 / 1350073741
ISBN-13	978-1-350-07374-6 / 9781350073746
Zustand	Neuware