| The Quarrel Between Invariance and Flux: A Guide for Philosophers and Other Players Contributor(s): Margolis, Joseph (Author), Catudal, Jacques N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0271020652 ISBN-13: 9780271020655 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $36.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Rather than just offer background readings or a survey of views on a subject, as traditional anthologies do, this volume tries to engage the reader's active participation in understanding how philosophy came to be split between analytic and continental approaches and in finding ways to reconcile the two. It does so by tracing the history of philosophy as a perennial contest between two opposing worldviews: one that relates change to an underlying structure of invariance, and another that sees change itself ("flux") as the basic condition of existence. The seven chapters cover the full range of major topics of philosophy, from metaphysics to epistemology to ethics, and present carefully selected readings from key thinkers -- Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, and Peirce up to Heidegger, Husserl, Kuhn, Kripke, and Putnam, among others -- juxtaposed and introduced by the editors so as to stimulate active thinking about how the debate between these competing visions plays out in each arena. A bibliography of additional sources ends each chapter. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 116 |
| LCCN: 00051595 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.09" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 272 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Margolis, Joseph: - Jacques Catudal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drexel University.Catudal, Jacques N.: - Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and author of What, After All, Is a Work of Art? (Penn State, 1999). |
