The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Writings on Critical Thinking
Redaktion: Melkonian, Markar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like "human nature"-a term that has played its role in rhetoric, but that does not appear to have a definite, agreed-upon meaning? Indeed we can learn a great deal about some of the most influential modern philosophers, from the Enlightenment to Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V.O. Quine, by examining what they have to say about common sense, whilst the anthropologist Clifford Geertz observed that common sense "has become a central category, almost the central category, in a wide range of modern philosophical systems."

This book investigates the nature of common sense through a selection of key writings on epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, meta-ethics and the philosophy of economics and political philosophy. The authors included are representative of the Scottish School, such as David Hume, the Ordinary Language School, and members of the Analytic tradition, including Karl Popper, but they also incorporate thinkers like John Dewey from the American pragmatist tradition, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, recent popular writers on economics, and even pamphleteers, from Thomas Paine to contemporary engaged journalists.

This is the first reader to provide such a comprehensive overview of the central writings on common sense. It features review questions and further reading lists at the end of each section.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350073760
• Artikelnr.: 58011359

Autorenporträt

Markar Melkonian is Lecturer in Philosophy, California State University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

acknowledgements Preface: What This Reader Is (Not) About General
Introduction: Paradoxes of Plain Thinking Part One: Anti-Skeptical
Introduction i) An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common
Sense (1764) Thomas Reid ii) A Defense of Common Sense (1925) G.E. Moore
iii) From On Certainty (1951) Ludwig Wittgenstein iv) The Plain Truth about
Common Sense (1995) Mark Kingwell v) Philosophy and Ordinary Experience
(1999) Stanley Rosen Part Two: Common Sense and Science Introduction i)
Common Sense and Science (1948) John Dewey ii) The Scope and Language of
Science (1955) W.V.O. Quine iii) Two Faces of Common Sense (1973) Karl R.
Popper iv) Why Scientists Shouldn't Be Surprised by the Popularity of
Intelligent Design (2006) Scott O. Lilienfeld Part Three: Common Sense and
Religion Introduction i) A Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
(1705) Samuel Clarke ii) Good Sense without God (1772) Baron d'Holbach
iii)From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Completed 1776) David Hume
iv) Is Belief in God Properly Basic? (1981) Alvin Plantinga Part Four:
Common Sense and Morality Introduction i)The Theory of Moral Sentiments
(1759) Adam Smith ii)Methods of Ethics (1874) Henry Sidgwick iii)Ethics and
Common Sense (1986) Marcus G. Singer iv)Common-Sense Morality and
Utilitarianism (1992) J. Moreh Part Five: Common Sense and Economics
Introduction i)From Principles of Political Economy (1848) John Stuart Mill
ii) Corporate Social Responsibility and Income Inequality (2005, 2006) Gary
Becker and Richard A. Posner iii) Common Sense and the Depoliticization of
the Economic (2008) Jacinda Swanson iv) Common-Sense Neoliberalism (2013)
Stuart Hall and Alan O'Shea Part Six: Nothing More Political Introduction
i)From Common Sense (January, 1776) Thomas Paine ii)From Plain Truth
(March, 1776) Lt. Col. James Chalmers iii)The Study of Philosophy (after
1926) Antonio Gramsci iv) Inherit the Whirlwind (2004, 2005) Thomas Frank
bibliography index