What Is Philosophy for?
Autor Mary Midgleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 sep 2018
"Engaging and accessible, this vigorous swansong exemplifies many of Midgley's virtues, and revisits many of her favourite themes." - The Tablet
In her last published work, Mary Midgley addresses provocative questions, interrogating the various forms of our current intellectual anxieties and confusions and how we might deal with them. In doing so, she provides a robust, yet not uncritical, defence of philosophy and the life of the mind.
This defence is expertly placed in the context of contemporary debates about science, religion, and philosophy. It asks whether, in light of rampant scientific and technological developments, we still need philosophy to help us think about the big questions of meaning, knowledge, and value.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350051089
ISBN-10: 135005108X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:HPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 135005108X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:HPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Part 1. The Search for Signposts
Chapter 1. Directions
Chapter 2. Do Ideas Get Out Of Date?
Chapter 3. What is Research?
Chapter 4. Clashes of Method
Chapter 5. What is Matter?
Chapter 6. Quantum Queries
Chapter 7. What is Progress?
Chapter 8. Perspectives and Paradoxes: Rousseau And His Intellectual Explosives
Chapter 9. Mill And The Different Kinds Of Freedom
Chapter 10. Making Sense Of Toleration
PART 2. Tempting Visions of Science
Chapter 11. The Force of World-Pictures
Chapter 12. The Past Does Not Die
Chapter 13. Scientism; The New Sedative
PART 3. Mindlessness and Machine Worship
Chapter 14. The Power-Struggle
Chapter 15. Missing Persons
Chapter 16. Oracles
PART 4. Singularities and the Cosmos
Chapter 17. What Kind of Singularity?
Chapter 18. Can Intelligence be Measured?
Chapter 19. What is Materialism?
Chapter 20. The Cult of Impersonality
Chapter 21. Matter and Reality
Chapter 22. The Mystique of Scientism
Chapter 23. The Strange World-Picture
Conclusion: One World but Many Window
Chapter 1. Directions
Chapter 2. Do Ideas Get Out Of Date?
Chapter 3. What is Research?
Chapter 4. Clashes of Method
Chapter 5. What is Matter?
Chapter 6. Quantum Queries
Chapter 7. What is Progress?
Chapter 8. Perspectives and Paradoxes: Rousseau And His Intellectual Explosives
Chapter 9. Mill And The Different Kinds Of Freedom
Chapter 10. Making Sense Of Toleration
PART 2. Tempting Visions of Science
Chapter 11. The Force of World-Pictures
Chapter 12. The Past Does Not Die
Chapter 13. Scientism; The New Sedative
PART 3. Mindlessness and Machine Worship
Chapter 14. The Power-Struggle
Chapter 15. Missing Persons
Chapter 16. Oracles
PART 4. Singularities and the Cosmos
Chapter 17. What Kind of Singularity?
Chapter 18. Can Intelligence be Measured?
Chapter 19. What is Materialism?
Chapter 20. The Cult of Impersonality
Chapter 21. Matter and Reality
Chapter 22. The Mystique of Scientism
Chapter 23. The Strange World-Picture
Conclusion: One World but Many Window
Recenzii
Engaging and accessible, this vigorous swansong exemplifies many of Midgley's virtues, and revisits many of her favourite themes ... [it helps] us to see that many of our problems arise from trying to fit everything into a single explanatory template, rather than realising that one and the same reality can be understood from irreducibly different points of view.
Her final answer to the question "What is philosophy for?" is that its aim is not at all like that of the sciences. Scientists are specialists who study parts of the world, but philosophy concerns everybody. It tries to bring together aspects of life that have previously been unconnected in order to make a more coherent world-picture, which is not a private luxury but something essential for human life.
[This] is a book that not only illuminates the dangers and shortfalls of contemporary unrestrained faith in scientific and technological supremacy, it also accentuates the integrating qualities of philosophy which are necessary to achieve a more exhaustive view of the world and its complexities.
Her final answer to the question "What is philosophy for?" is that its aim is not at all like that of the sciences. Scientists are specialists who study parts of the world, but philosophy concerns everybody. It tries to bring together aspects of life that have previously been unconnected in order to make a more coherent world-picture, which is not a private luxury but something essential for human life.
[This] is a book that not only illuminates the dangers and shortfalls of contemporary unrestrained faith in scientific and technological supremacy, it also accentuates the integrating qualities of philosophy which are necessary to achieve a more exhaustive view of the world and its complexities.