| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Volume Contents; Chapter Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Some Perplexing Discoveries; Part I: Philosophical Pictures; 1 Philosophical Pictures: The Birth of 'the Mind'; 2 Through Pictures to Problems: Minds and Bodies; 3 Pictures' Effects: From 'Secondary Qualities' to 'Perceptions'; Part II: Philosophical Delusions; 4 The Power of Pictures: Berkeley's Approach; 5 Self-Perpetuating Absurdity: Berkeley Defends 'Perceptions'; 6 Philosophical Delusions: Ayer Reinvents 'Perceptions'; Part III: Therapeutic Philosophy |
| Summary |
Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the mind |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Philosophy.
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Methodology.
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Delusions.
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Philosophy
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Methods
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philosophy.
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methodology.
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Delusions
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Methodology
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Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203397893 |
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0203397894 |
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