Redirecting Philosophy : : The Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan / / Hugo A. Meynell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Meynell, Hugo A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Part I: Prelude --; 1. Scepticism --; 2. Truth --; 3. Data --; 4. Reality --; Part II: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes --; 5. Limits of Sociology: Wittgenstein, Bloor, and Barnes --; 6. Primitives and Paradigms: Winch and Kuhn --; 7. Anarchy and Falsification: Feyerabend and Popper --; 8. The Self-immolation of Scientism: Sellars and Rorty --; Part III: Continental Drift --; 9. Consciousness and Existence: Husserl and Heidegger --; 10. Deconstruction and the Ubiquity of Power: Derrida and Foucault --; 11. An Unstable Compromise: Habermas --; Part IV: Recovering the Tradition --; 12. How Right Plato Was --; 13. On Being an Aristotelian --; 14. Two Methods: Descartes and Lonergan --; 15. Conclusion --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442679108; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442679108
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hugo A. Meynell.

In a contemporary climate that tends to dismiss philosophy as an outmoded and increasingly useless discipline, philosophers have been forced to reconsider much of what they have formerly taken for granted. Redirecting Philosophy, Hugo Meynell's reassessment of the foundations and nature of knowledge, is a compelling response to this trend.This illuminating study surveys and analysis 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.An insightful, up-to-date guide to philosophy and the theory of science, Meynell's book will be stimulating and valuable reading both in and out of the classroom.