Essays Sceptical And Anti Sceptical
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Sceptical Essays
Author | : Bertrand Russell |
Publisher | : Unwin Hyman |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Intellect |
ISBN | : 9780415079198 |
"With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and subversive' - a belief that reason should determine human actions. Unwittingly foreseeing the horrors that resulted in the ensuing years from the irrational passions of religious and political beliefs, it is no wonder that Sceptical Essays has never been out of print since its first publication 1928." "Today, besieged as we are by the numbing onslaught of twenty-first-century capitalism, Russell's defence of scepticism and independence of mind is as timely as ever. In clear, engaging prose, he guides us through the key philosophical issues that affect our daily life - freedom, happiness, emotions, ethics and beliefs - and offers no-nonsense advice. What would be the effect, he asks his readers with playful irony, 'of a spread of rational scepticism?'"--BOOK JACKET.
The Demands of Reason
Author | : Casey Perin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2010-04-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019955790X |
Casey Perin presents a new interpretation of key ideas and arguments in Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism, a founding text of the Sceptical tradition in philosophy. Perin examines Sextus' commitment to the search for truth and to certain principles of rationality, the scope of his scepticism, and its consequences for action and agency.
Philosophers Past and Present
Author | : Barry Stroud |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191619418 |
This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day. Seven of the essays focus on David Hume, and examine the sources and implications of his 'naturalism' and his 'scepticism'. Three others deal with the legacy of that 'naturalism' in the twentieth century. In each case Stroud moves beyond providing a description of historical contexts and developments, and confronts the philosophical issues as they present themselves to the philosophers in question.
Anti-scepticism
Author | : Henry Lee (D.D.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1702 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN | : |
The Original Sceptics
Author | : Myles Burnyeat |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780872203471 |
This is a collection of five essays debating the nature and scope of ancient scepticism, and providing an introduction to the thought of the original sceptics. The book seeks to shed new light on how their thought relates to sceptical arguments in modern philosophy.
Skepticism
Author | : Keith DeRose |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Skepticism: Contemporary Reader brings together the most important recent contributions to the discussion of skepticism. Covering major approaches to the skeptical problem, it features essays by Anthony Brueckner, Keith DeRose, Fred Dretske, Graeme Forbes, Christopher Hill, David Lewis, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Ernest Sosa, Gail Stine, Barry Stroud, Peter Unger, and Ted Warfield.
Literature and "Interregnum"
Author | : Patrick Dove |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438461569 |
Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, and Roberto Bolaño. The opening of national spaces to the global capitalist system in the 1980s culminates in the suspension of key principles of modernity, most notably that of political sovereignty. While the neoliberal model subjugates modern forms of social organization and political decision making to an economic rationale, the market is unable to provide a new ordering principle that could fill the empty place formerly occupied by the national figure of the sovereign. The result is a situation that resembles what the Italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci termed "interregnum," an in-between time in which "the old [order] is dying and the new cannot be born." The recoding of history as literary form provides occasions for reconsidering modern conceptualizations of aesthetic experience, mood, temporality, thought, politics, ethical experience, as well as of literature itself as social institution. In his analysis, Patrick Dove seeks to create dialogues between literature and theoretical perspectives, including Continental philosophy, political thought, psychoanalysis, and sociology of globalization. The author highlights the connections between mass media, technology, politics, and economics.
Essays on Skepticism
Author | : Anthony Brueckner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2010-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199585865 |
Anthony Brueckner is recognized as one of the leading contemporary investigators of the problem of skepticism. This collection brings together Brueckner's most important work in this area, providing a connected and comprehensive guide to the complex state of play on this intensively studied area of philosophy.
The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism
Author | : Barry Stroud |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1984-07-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198247613 |
He author argues that the sceptical thesis is motivated by a persistent philosophical problem that calls the very possibility of knowledge about the external world into question, and that the sceptical thesis is the only acceptable answer to this problem as traditionally posed.