Redirecting Philosophy: Reflections on the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan - Hardcover

Meynell, Hugo Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802043143 ISBN 13: 9780802043146

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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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HUGO MEYNELL is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary.

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'This book is timely and stirring, apt to give heart to all those who like to reflect critically and are prepared to give human thought and human potentialities their full due. The style is elegant, forceful, and above all, pellucidly clear.'

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802043143
• ISBN 13: 9780802043146
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 327
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