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Subject(s)

• Knowledge, Theory of. [Browse]

Summary note

"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.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

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.

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ISBN

• 1-281-99560-6
• 9786611995607
• 1-4426-7910-7

OCLC

• 288093413
• 979756908
• 1386703662

Doi

• 10.3138/9781442679108

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