| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Scepticism -- Truth -- Data -- Reality -- Limits of sociology : Wittgenstein, Bloor, and Barnes -- Primitives and paradigms : Winch and Kuhn -- Anarchy and falsification : Feyerabend and Popper -- The self-immolation of scientism : Sellars and Rorty -- Consciousness and existence : Husserl and Heidegger -- Deconstruction and the ubiquity of power : Derrida and Foucault -- An unstable compromise : Habermas -- How right Plato was -- On being an Aristotelian -- Two methods : Descartes and Lonergan. |
| Summary |
"This illuminating study surveys and analyses the views of the most influential contemporary thinkers in the English-speaking world (Wittgenstein, Strawson, Searle, Popper, Feyerabend, Kuhn, Rorty, Lonergan) and in continental philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas). In setting those views against the background of classical philosophy, Meynell offers fresh perspectives on the basic problems that occupy philosophers today - problems such as scepticism, truth, experience, metaphysics, method, power, humane values, and the role of science."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Meynell, Hugo Anthony. Redirecting philosophy. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998 9780802043146 (DLC) 99189141 (OCoLC)45100501 |
| ISBN |
9781442679108 (electronic book) |
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1442679107 (electronic book) |
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0802043143 (bound) |
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0802081401 (paperback) |
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9780802081407 |
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9780802043146 |
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