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.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 327 p.)
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE 10
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 14
- Part I: Prelude 16
- 1 Scepticism 18
- 2 Truth 35
- 3 Data 58
- 4 Reality 75
- Part II: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 100
- 5 Limits of Sociology: Wittgenstein, Bloor, and Barnes 102
- 6 Primitives and Paradigms: Winch and Kuhn 122
- 7 Anarchy and Falsification: Feyerabend and Popper 145
- 8 The Self-immolation of Scientism: Sellars and Rorty 167
- Part III: Continental Drift 192
- 9 Consciousness and Existence: Husserl and Heidegger 194
- 10 Deconstruction and the Ubiquity of Power: Derrida and Foucault 212
- 11 An Unstable Compromise: Habermas 237
- Part IV: Recovering the Tradition 254
- 12 How Right Plato Was 256
- 13 On Being an Aristotelian 267
- 14 Two Methods: Descartes and Lonergan 281
- 15 Conclusion 294
- NOTES 298
- INDEX 338
- A 338
- B 338
- C 338
- D 339
- E 339
- F 339
- G 339
- H 339
- I 339
- J 339
- K 340
- L 340
- M 340
- N 340
- O 340
- P 340
- Q 341
- R 341
- S 341
- T 341
- V 341
- W 341
