Gary Gutting

What Philosophers Know

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon the work of Quine, Rawls, Rorty and others, Gutting challenges the standard view about what philosophers have achieved.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521856218
• ISBN-10: 0521856213
• Artikelnr.: 25546138

Autorenporträt

Gary Gutting holds the Notre Dame Chair in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent publications include The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, 2nd Edition (2005), Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2005) and French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. How Does That Go? The Limits of Philosophical Argument: 1. Quine's 'Two Dogmas': argument or imagination?
2. Argument and intuition in Kripke's Naming and Necessity
3. The rise and fall of counterexamples: Gettier, Goldman, and Lewis
4. Reflection: pictures, intuitions, and philosophical knowledge
Part II. Arguments and Convictions: 5. Turning the tables: Plantinga and the rise of the philosophy of religion
6. Materialism and compatibilism: two dogmas of analytic philosophy?
7. Was there a Kuhnian revolution? Convictions in the philosophy of science
8. Conviction and argument in Rawls' A Theory of Justice
Part III. Philosophical Truth and Knowledge: 9. Rorty against the world: philosophy, truth, and objectivity
10. Philosophical knowledge: summary and application
References.