Human Nature and Natural Knowledge: Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her Seventy-Fifth Birthday - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 940095350X ISBN 13 : 9789400953505

Editeur : Springer, 2011

Synopsis

I: Self and Society.- Love, Friendship, and Utility: On Practical Reason and Reductionism.- The "Internal Politics" of Biology and the Justification of Biological Theories.- Two Motivations for Rationalism: Descartes and Spinoza.- The Invention of Split Personalities.- Positivism, Sociology, and Practical Reasoning: Notes on Durkheim's Suicide.- II: Interpreting the Tradition.- Adequate Causes and Natural Change in Descartes' Philosophy.- Heidegger and the Scandal of Philosophy.- Spinoza and the Ontological Proof.- Tracking Aristotle's Noûs.- III: Science and Explanation.- Two Kinds of Teleological Explanation.- Philosophy and Medicine in Antiquity.- Anthropocentrism Reconsidered.- Location and Existence.- Forms of Aggregativity.- IV: Rencontre.- Descartes and Merleau-Ponty on the Cogito as the Foundation of Philosophy.- The Worst Excess of Cartesian Dualism.- Genius, Scientific Method, and the Stability of Synthetic A Priori Principles.- Should Hume Be Answered or Bypassed?.- V: Reflections.- In and On Friendship.- The Professional Activities of Marjorie Grene.- The Publications of Marjorie Grene.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 940095350X
• ISBN 13: 9789400953505
• Reliure: Paperback
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