| Philosophy and Mystification: A Reflection on Nonsense and Clarity Contributor(s): Robinson, Guy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415178517 ISBN-13: 9780415178518 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: "Philosophy and Mystification" is a work of philosophy in and of itself as much as it is a book about philosophy. Its reflections on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, skepticism and the question of foundations and origins. Guy Robinson argues that a conception of philosophy was adopted in the 17th century that required us to see the "world upside-down," creating abstract and mystified entities to explain the ordinary and concrete, requiring us to explain the social in terms of the individual, and the human and purposive in terms of the mechanical, and not only to see nature as a vast mechanism but science as a mechanical activity whose rules it was the business of the philosopher to discover. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Philosophy | Methodology - Religion | Mysticism |
| Dewey: 101 |
| LCCN: 97018223 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (1.20 lbs) 312 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Philosophy and Mystification reflects on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, scepticism and the questions of foundations and origins. |