Ernest Gellner

The Devil in Modern Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780415302982
• ISBN-10: 0415302986
• Artikelnr.: 21442371

Autorenporträt

Ernest Gellner

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Philosophy in general
Chapter 1 The devil in modern philosophy
Chapter 2 The crisis in the humanities and the mainstream of philosophy
Chapter 3 Reflections on philosophy, especially in America
Chapter 4 On being wrong
Chapter 5 Is belief really necessary?
Part 2 On ethics
Chapter 6 Maxims
Chapter 7 Ethics and logic
Chapter 8 Knowing how and validity
Chapter 9 Morality and 'je ne sais quoi' concepts
Part 3 Some ancestors
Chapter 10 French eighteenth-century materialism
Part 4 Philosophy in particular
Chapter 11 Thought and time, or the reluctant relativist
Chapter 12 Poker player
Chapter 13 Ayer's epistle to the Russians
Chapter 14 Ayer on Moore and Russell
Chapter 15 The belief machine
Part 5 Psychologists and others
Chapter 16 The ascent of life
Chapter 17 Man's picture of his world
Chapter 18 On Freud and Reich
Chapter 19 A genetic psychologist's confessions
Chapter 20 Eysenck: seeing emperors naked
Chapter 21 On Chomsky