Professional Philosophy What It Is and Why It Matters
Over the past several decades serious work in philosophy has become almost wholly inaccessible to people who do not specialize in the subject. To be sure, the writings of Aristotle and Kant were never easy reading, and even relatively untechnical philosophers like Mill or Santayana de mand careful...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1986, 1986
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1986 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One
- 1/Four Stages of Reflection
- 2/Defending Common Sense
- 3/Descriptive Metaphysics
- 4/Conceptual Reform
- Two
- 5/Metaphysics Out of Logic
- 6/Inside the Revolution
- 7/A Passage to America
- 8/Recent Philosophy of Language
- Three
- 9/Values in General
- 10/Ethical Theory
- 11/Applied Ethics
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Name Index