| Description |
1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals Series |
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Routledge Revivals Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I Modes of Philosophy -- Introduction: On Mapping the Ground in Philosophy -- Chapter 1 Mode (1) Philosophy Looks at Scientific Reasoning (Metascience) -- Chapter 2 Mode (2) The Nature of Human Knowledge (Epistemology) -- Chapter 3 Mode (3) The Scientific Structure of the World (Embedded Ontology) -- Appendix to Mode (3) -- Chapter 4 Mode (4) Armchair Science (Parascientific Ontology) -- Chapter 5 Mode (5) The Nature of All Things (Cosmological Ontology) -- Appendix to Modes (3), (4), (5) |
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Chapter 6 Mode (6) Philosophy as Meaningless (Meta-ontological Negativism) -- Chapter 7 Mode (7) Philosophy as a Way of Life -- Chapter 8 Mode (8) Evaluation of Modes of Philosophy -- Part II Weeding and Pruning -- Chapter 9 The Problems of Proof and Disproof -- Chapter 10 On the Refutability of Metaphysics -- Chapter 11 The Refutation of Logical Positivism -- Chapter 12 The Refutation of Semantic Ontology -- Chapter 13 Evaluation of Refutations and Residues -- Part III What Are Philosophers' Goals? -- Chapter 14 The Problem of Philosophers' Goals |
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Chapter 15 Of the Optimists: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley and Kant -- Chapter 16 Of the Pessimists: Hume, Schopenhauer and Bradley -- Chapter 17 One Dogma of Apriorism and Empiricism -- Chapter 18 Social Motives -- Chapter 19 Rationalist Tendencies in Twentieth-Century Thought -- Chapter 20 Anti-Rationalist Tendencies in Twentieth-Century Thought -- Chapter 21 The Twentieth-Century Sophists -- Chapter 22 The Place of Goals and Motives in Philosophy -- Part IV Philosophy as a Social and Personal Weltanschauung -- Chapter 23 The Idea of Culture and the Role of Philosophy |
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Chapter 24 Philosophy as a World-Outlook (Weltanschauung) -- Chapter 25 The Downfall of Values (Die Götterdämmerung) -- Chapter 26 Ultimate Social Values: Current Options -- Chapter 27 Pragmatism and the American Mom -- Chapter 28 Existentialism as a Way of Life -- Chapter 29 The Rationale of Duty -- Chapter 30 Quod Vitae Sectabor Iter? -- Chapter 31 Philosophy and the Future Weltanschauung of Man and Society -- Acknowledgements -- Index |
| Summary |
First Published in 1975, Philosophy and Its Place in Our Culture aims to show what relevance philosophy may have to human affairs. In the course of this study, a number of other important issues are brought to light |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003852971 |
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1003852971 |
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