Skepticism and Naturalism
Author | : P. F. Strawson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780231059176 |
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Author | : P. F. Strawson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780231059176 |
Author | : P.F. Strawson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2011-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136652817 |
By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years, Scepticism and Naturalism is a profound reflection on two classic philosophical problems by a philosopher at the pinnacle of his career. Based on his acclaimed Woodbridge lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1983, Strawson begins with a discussion of scepticism, which he defines as questioning the adequacy of our grounds for holding various beliefs. He then draws deftly on Hume and Wittgenstein to argue that we must distinguish between 'hard', scientific naturalism; or 'soft', humanistic naturalism. In the remaining chapters the author takes up several issues in which sceptical doubts play an important role, in particular the nature of transcendental arguments and including the objectivity of moral philosophy, the mental and the physical, and the existence of abstract entities. Scepticism and Naturalism is essential reading for those seeking an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important and original philosophers. This reissue includes a substantial new foreword by Quassim Cassam and a fascinating intellectual autobiography by Strawson, which together form an excellent introduction to his life and work.
Author | : Peter Frederick Strawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Naturalism |
ISBN | : 9780416000023 |
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1955-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780486202365 |
In this work, Santayana analyzes the nature of the knowing process and demonstrates by means of clear, powerful arguments how we know and what validates our knowledge. The central concept of his philosophy is found in a careful discrimination between the awareness of objects independent of our perception and the awareness of essences attributed to objects by our mind, or between what Santayana calls the realm of existents and the realm of subsistents. Since we can never be certain that these attributes actually inhere in a substratum of existents, skepticism is established as a form of belief, but animal faith is shown to be a necessary quality of the human mind. Without this faith there could be no rational approach to the necessary problem of understanding and surviving in this world. Santayana derives this practical philosophy from a wide and fascinating variety of sources. He considers critically the positions of such philosophers as Descartes, Euclid, Hume, Kant, Parmenides, Plato, Pythagoras, Schopenhauer, and the Buddhist school as well as the assumptions made by the ordinary man in everyday situations. Such matters as the nature of belief, the rejection of classical idealism, the nature of intuition and memory, symbols and myth, mathematical reality, literary psychology, the discovery of essence, sublimation of animal faith, the implied being of truth, and many others are given detailed analyses in individual chapters.
Author | : Jessica Berry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195368428 |
This work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.
Author | : Clifford A. Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317493966 |
The British philosopher, Peter Strawson, has helped shape the development of philosophy for over fifty years. His work has radically altered the philosophical concept of analysis, returned metaphysics to centre stage in Anglo-American philosophy, and has transformed the framework for subsequent interpretations of Kantian philosophy. In this, the first, introduction to Strawson's ideas, Clifford Brown focuses on a selection of Strawson's most important texts and close and detailed examination of the arguments, and contributions to debates (with, for example, Russell, Quine and Austin), which have done the most to establish Strawson's formidable reputation. Each chapter provides clear exposition of a central work and explores the ways in which other philosophers have responded to Strawson's initiatives. Brown shows how Strawson's philosophical approach has been to seek better understanding of particular concepts or concept-groups and to draw out an awareness of parallels and connections among them that sheds new light over an apparently familiar landscape. The central thoughts in logic and language with which Strawson began his career are shown to have remained constant throughout while manifesting their applications across an even broader range of philosophical topics.
Author | : P. F. Strawson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780231059176 |
Author | : Pranab Kumar Sen |
Publisher | : Allied Publishers |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Logic |
ISBN | : 9788185636160 |
Festschrift honoring P.F. Strawson; includes contributed articles on his contributions in logic and on logic.
Author | : C. Landesman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401733171 |
This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge. It begins with a characterization of our common sense understanding of the role of the senses in the acquisition of belief, and it argues that scientific accounts of the processes of perception undermine salient parts of this understanding. The naive point of view of direct realism cannot be sustained in the light of a scientifically instructed understanding of perception. This critique of direct realism points to the correctness of the representative theory of perception characteristic of such early modem philosophers as Descartes and Locke, and it also endorses the subjective tum that they defended. It argues that these positions do not require introducing sense data into the picture, and thus it avoids the intractable problems that the sense datum philosophy introduces. In addition, several versions of cognitive accounts of sense perception are criticized with the result that it is unnecessary to characterize sensory processes in intentional terms. The book then turns to a leading question introduced into modem philosophy by Descartes and Locke, the question of the accuracy of the information delivered by the senses to our faculty of belief. In particular, how accurate are our representations of the secondary qualities? The case of color is considered in detail.