Philosophy and the 'Dazzling Ideal' of Science

AvGraham McFee

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-06
Mått:148 x 210 x 27 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:338
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030216771

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Graham McFee is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Brighton, UK, and a member of the Philosophy Department at California State University Fullerton. He has lectured and published nationally and internationally on, especially, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the aesthetics of dance.

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Chapter One: Introductory — A still point in a turning world?.- Chapter Two: Persons as Agents: The Possibility of Genuine Action.- Chapter Three: What Persons Are: Identity, Personal Identity and Composition.- Chapter Four: What Persons are Not: Causality, Minds and the Brain.- Chapter Five: Evolutionary Explanation in Psychology: Not an Issue for Philosophy?.- Chapter Six: Persons, Artificial Intelligence, and Science Fiction Thought-Experiments.- Chapter Seven: Considerations of Exceptionlessness in Philosophy: or, ‘Everything … ‘.- Chapter Eight: Philosophy without Exceptionlessness.- Chapter Nine: Conclusion: The Place of Reason.