Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
Author: Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors
Author: Charles Wells MoultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
1891-1904
Author: Charles Wells MoultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Geological Magazine
Author: Henry WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Buckets from an English Sea
Author: Louis Barry RosenblattPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190654406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
"...As author Lou Rosenblatt explains, the year 1832 in Darwin's life was crucial for the development of his theory of evolution. A century and a half of study of Darwin, the man, and his work, including close readings of his books, notebooks, letters, and even the books he read, has led to a working appreciation of his genius. The "success" of this account has, however, kept us from seeing several important issues: most notably, why did he pursue evolution in the first place? While this book is neither an almanac of 1832, nor a biography of Charles Darwin (though both are at the heart of Rosenblatt's work), Buckets from an English Sea offers a unique take on the factors that shaped Darwin's legendary theory and the making of him as a scientist..."--Dust jacket.
A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses
Author: James FieserPublisher: James Fieser
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This work is a supplement to the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
The Scottish Historical Review
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.
The Athenaeum
Author: Philosophy and the 'Dazzling Ideal' of Science
Author: Graham McFeePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030216756
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science. In this book, Graham McFee defends the claims of philosophy against attempts to minimize either philosophy’s possibility or its importance by deploying a contrast with what Wittgenstein characterized as the “dazzling ideal” of science. This ‘dazzling ideal’ incorporates both the imagined completeness of scientific explanation—whereby completing its project would leave nothing unexplained—and the exceptionless character of the associated conception of causality. On such a scientistic world-view, what need is there for philosophy? In his defense of philosophy (and its truth-claims), McFee shows that rejecting such scientism is not automatically anti-scientific, and that it permits granting to natural science (properly understood) its own truth-generating power. Further, McFee argues for contextualism in the project of philosophy, and sets aside the pervasive (and pernicious) requirement for exceptionless generalizations while relating his account to interconnections between the concepts of person, substance, agency, and causation.