Why Collingwood Matters

A Defence of Humanistic Understanding

AvGiuseppina D'Oro,Constantine Sandis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist. His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly influential in the 20th and 21st century. Although the importance of his work is indisputable, this is the first book to consider how and why it actually matters. Giussepina D'oro considers the importance of Collingwood as a thinker who thinks kaleidoscopically and, unlike lots of contemporary philosophers, refuses to focus on narrow, technical interests but instead, observes the whole world of thought. Why Collingwood Matters revives Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis and shows how it informs his understanding of the mind, what it means to act, and what it means to understand the past historically. It also argues for the relevance of his metaphilosophical approach to the challenge posed by the Anthropocene and the global environmental crisis.Both an elucidation of Collingwood's thought and a lively exploration of it's contemporary relevance, Why Collingwood Matters provides a much-needed examination of a 20th-century polymath.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-02
Mått:142 x 220 x 20 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Why Philosophy Matters
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350185715

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Giuseppina D'oro is Reader in Philosophy, Keele University, UK. She is the author of Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience (2014 2nd edition) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (2017), Collingwood on Methodology (2018). D'oro is also the co-editor of the new edition of R.G. Collingwood's Essay on Philosophical Method.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction 2. What does Philosophy do? 2.1 Questions and their Presuppositions2.2 The Philosopher as a Logical Detective2.3 Different Ways of Looking at the World2.4 Nothing Wrong with Science, the Problem is Scientism2.5 No Contest Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image2.6 The Devil is in the Detail: Explanatory Pluralism, not Relativism2.7 Why Philosophy Matters Even if it Bakes no Bread3. Mind 3.1 The Telescopic View of the Mind and the Layered View of the Sciences3.2 The Usual Non-Reductivist Suspects3.3 The Bifurcated View of the Sciences and the Manifest Image of Mind3.4 Working Within the Constraint that Philosophy Should Not Conflict with Science3.5 Why Mind is Not Matter4. Action 4.1 The Kantian Antinomy of Freedom and Determinism4.2 Rationalizations and Causal Explanations4.3 Anomalous Monism and Anti-Causalism4.4 Why Actions are not Events5. History 5.1 The Historical and the Natural Past5.2 How to Understand Other Minds Historically5.3 The Narrative Turn, Postmodernism and Re-enactment5.4 Cultural Anthropology with Collingwood and Quine5.5 Why the Past can be Known6. The Nature/Culture Distinction 6.1 The Challenge of the Anthropocene6.2 Just an Ideology for the Industrial Revolution?6.3 Is the Nature/Culture Distinction Speciesist?6.4 Historical and Chemical agents6.5 Why Defending the Nature Culture/Distinction Matters to the Environmental Crisis7. Conclusion: Why Collingwood Matters Bibliography Index