| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 959 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge histories online |
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Cambridge histories online
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| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas Baldwin -- I 1870-1914 -- 1 Positivism, Idealism, and Pragmatism -- Positivist thought in the nineteenth century / Rom Harré -- Neo-Kantianism: the German idealism movement / Christopher Adair-Toteff -- Idealism in Britain and the United States / James Allard -- Idealism in Russia / David Bakhurst -- Bergson / F.C.T. Moore -- Pragmatism / Christopher Hookway -- 2 Psychology and Philosophy -- Psychology: old and new / Gary Hatfield -- The unconscious mind / Sebastian Gardner -- 3 Logic, mathematics, and judgement -- Logic: revival and reform / Peter Simons -- Foundations of mathematics / Michael Hallett -- Theories of judgement / Artur Rojszczak and Barry Smith -- The logical analysis of language / David Bell -- 4 Philosophy and the new physics -- The atomism debate / Eli Zahar -- Theories of space-time in modern physics / Luciano Boi -- 5 The idea of social science -- The debate over the Geisteswissenschaften in German philosophy / R. Lanier Anderson -- From political economy to positive economics / Margaret Schabas -- Sociology and the idea of social science / Geoffrey Hawthorn -- 6 Ethics, politics, and legal theory -- Utilitarians and idealists / Ross Harrison -- Nietzsche / Edgar Sleinis -- The new realism in ethics / Christian Piller -- Individualism vs. collectivism / Peter Nicholson -- Marxism and anarchism / Alex Callinicos -- Legal theory / Stanley L. Paulson -- 7 Philosophy of religion and art -- Sceptical challenges to faith / James Livingston -- The defence of faith / James Livingston -- Art and morality: aesthetics at 1870 / Paul Guyer -- Form and feeling: aesthetics at the turn of the century / Paul Guyer -- Interlude -- -- Logical atomism / Peter Simons -- The scientific world conception: logical positivism / Alan Richardson -- The achievements of the Polish school of logic / Jan Woleński -- Logic and philosophical analysis / Thomas Baldwin -- 9 The diversity of philosophy -- The continuing idealist tradition / Leslie Armour -- Transformations in speculative philosophy / James Bradley -- Realism, naturalism, and pragmatism / Cornelius Delaney -- French Catholic philosophy / Daniel Leduc-Fayette -- Spanish philosophy / Manuel Garrido -- The phenomenological movement / Herman Philipse -- Heidegger / Raymond Geuss -- Latin american philosophy / Eduardo Rabossi -- Japanese philosophy / Thomas Kasulis -- 10 Knowledge, language, and the end of metaphysics -- Sensible appearances / Michael Martin -- The renaissance of epistemology / Luciano Floridi -- The solipsism debates / David Bell -- Language / David Holdcroft -- The end of philosophy as metaphysics / Simon Glendinning -- 11 Philosophy and the exact sciences -- First-order logic and its rivals / Michael Scanlan -- The golden age of mathematical logic / John Dawson -- General relativity / Thomas Ryckman -- Scientific explanation / George Gale -- The rise of probabilistic thinking / Jan Von Plato -- 12 Mind and its place in nature -- Vitalism and emergence / Brian McLaughlin -- Behaviourism and psychology / Gary Hatfield -- Gestalt psychology / Thomas Leahey -- Wittgenstein's conception of mind / Marie McGinn -- 13 Philosophy and social science -- The methodology of the social sciences / James Bohman -- The rise of social anthropology / Merrilee H. Salmon -- Western marxism and ideology critique / Alex Callinicos -- 14 Ethics, religion, and the arts -- From intuitionism to emotivism / Jonathan Dancy -- Philosophy of religion / Richard H. Roberts -- Literature as philosophy / Rhiannon Goldthorpe -- Aesthetics between the wars: art and liberation / Paul Guyer -- 15 Law and politics -- Hans Kelsen and normative legal positivism / Stanley L. Paulson -- The liberal democratic state: defences and developments / Richard Bellamy -- The liberal democratic state: critics / Walter Adamson |
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I: 1870-1914 -- Positivism, idealism, and pragmatism -- Psychology and philosophy -- Logic, mathematics, and judgement -- Philosophy and the new physics -- The idea of social science -- Ethics, politics, and legal theory -- Philosophy of religion and art -- II: 1914-1945 -- Logic and philosophy: the analytic programme -- The diversity of philosophy -- Knowledge, language, and the end of metaphysics -- Philosophy and the exact sciences -- Mind and its place in nature -- Philosophy and social science -- Ethics, religion, and the arts -- Law and politics |
| Summary |
Presents over sixty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period; designed to be accessible to non-specialists. The first part of the book traces the history of philosophy from its remarkable flowering in the 1870s through to the early years of the twentieth century. After a brief discussion of the impact of the First World War, the second part of the book describes further developments in philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. The essays concentrate on developments across the range of philosophical topics, from logic and metaphysics to political philosophy and philosophy of religion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 814-923) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy.
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Filosofie.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baldwin, Thomas, 1947-
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| LC no. |
2002038844 |
| ISBN |
9780511468254 |
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0511468253 |
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9781139053563 |
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1139053566 |
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1107628830 |
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9781107628830 |
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