Failures of Philosophy (eBook)

A Historical Essay

Stephen Gaukroger (Autor)

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2020
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20957-9 (ISBN)

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The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking the long view, philosophy has actually collapsed several times, been abandoned, sometimes for centuries, and been replaced by something quite different. When it has been revived it has been with new aims that are often accompanied by implausible attempts to establish continuity with a perennial philosophical tradition. What do these failures tell us?The Failures of Philosophy presents a historical investigation of philosophy in the West, from the perspective of its most significant failures: attempts to provide an account of the good life, to establish philosophy as a discipline that can stand in judgment over other forms of thought, to set up philosophy as a theory of everything, and to construe it as a discipline that rationalizes the empirical and mathematical sciences. Stephen Gaukroger argues that these failures reveal more about philosophical inquiry and its ultimate point than its successes ever could. These failures illustrate how and why philosophical inquiry has been conceived and reconceived, why philosophy has been thought to bring distinctive skills to certain questions, and much more.An important and original account of philosophy's serial breakdowns, The Failures of Philosophy ultimately shows how these shortcomings paradoxically reveal what matters most about the field.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: abductive reasoning • abstract enquiry • Abstraction • Analytic philosophy • Analytic–synthetic distinction • Ancient Philosophy • A priori and a posteriori • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • Atheism • Atomism • Augustine • Baruch Spinoza • Cartesian doubt • cognate questions • Cognition • Concept • Conceptions of God • Condition of possibility • Consciousness • Consequentialism • Contradiction • Cosmopolitan ethics • counterexample • critical philosophy • critique • Critique of Pure Reason • Deductive Reasoning • Denis Diderot • dichotomy • Direct and indirect realism • Early modern philosophy • Empirical Evidence • empirical science • Epicureanism • Epistemology • ethics • Etienne Condillac • Eudaimonia • Existence • existence of god • Explanation • Falsity • First principle • French medical philosophers • German Idealism • German popular philosophers • Good and evil • Good Life • History of Metaphysics • Holism • Hume • idealism • idealists • Immanuel Kant • inference • intellectual morality • John Stuart Mill • KANTIANISM • Logic • Logical Positivism • Materialism • Mathematical Sciences • Metaphysical naturalism • Metaphysics • metaphysics of morals • metatheory • metatheory of science • moral complexity • moral diversity • Morality • Morality and religion • Natural Philosophy • Natural Theology • nature of philosophy • Neo-Kantianism • Neoplatonism • New Science • Nicolas Malebranche • Objectivity (philosophy) • Ontology • Optics • Pantheism • Phenomenology • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophical Enquiry • philosophical theory • Philosophy • Philosophy of Medicine • philosophy of science • Plato • Platonism • premise • premises • presocratic • Pre-Socratic Philosophy • Principle • Pure Mathematics • Pyrrhonism • Rationalism • Reality • reason • Relativism • Religion • Renaissance naturalism • Rene Descartes • Requirement • Science • Scientific Method • scientific theory • Scientist • Sense perception • sensibility • skepticism • socratic • Sophist • Speculative reason • Stoicism • St. Thomas Aquinas • syllogism • Teleology • the metaphysics of morals • Theology • theory • Theory of everything • Theory of Forms • Theory of Justification • The Philosopher • Thomism • Thought • Transcendental philosophy • treatise • Unity of science • Universality (philosophy) • Utilitarianism • Validity • Veridicality • Vision • Western Philosophy • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20957-X / 069120957X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20957-9 / 9780691209579