Human Nature and Natural Knowledge Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Everybody knows Marjorie Grene. In part, this is because she is a presence: her vividness, her energy, her acute intelligence, her critical edge, her quick humor, her love of talking, her passion for philosophy - all combine to make her inevitable. Marjorie Grene cannot be missed or overlooked or un...
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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 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Self and Society
- Love, Friendship, and Utility: On Practical Reason and Reductionism
- The “Internal Politics” of Biology and the Justification of Biological Theories
- Two Motivations for Rationalism: Descartes and Spinoza
- The Invention of Split Personalities
- Positivism, Sociology, and Practical Reasoning: Notes on Durkheim’s Suicide
- II: Interpreting the Tradition
- Adequate Causes and Natural Change in Descartes’ Philosophy
- Heidegger and the Scandal of Philosophy
- Spinoza and the Ontological Proof
- Tracking Aristotle’s Noûs
- III: Science and Explanation
- Two Kinds of Teleological Explanation
- Philosophy and Medicine in Antiquity
- Anthropocentrism Reconsidered
- Location and Existence
- Forms of Aggregativity
- IV: Rencontre
- Descartes and Merleau-Ponty on the Cogito as the Foundation of Philosophy
- The Worst Excess of Cartesian Dualism
- Genius, Scientific Method, and the Stability of Synthetic A Priori Principles
- Should Hume Be Answered or Bypassed?
- V: Reflections
- In and On Friendship
- The Professional Activities of Marjorie Grene
- The Publications of Marjorie Grene
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects