Redirecting Philosophy : : The Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan /

Redirecting Philosophy : : The Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan / / 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 know...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Meynell, Hugo A.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1998
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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