Philosophy and Mystification : a Reflection on Nonsense and Clarity.

Philosophy and Mystification is an extraordinary meta-philosophical work that boldly tackles a series of particular problems in philosophy as a starting point for a reflection on the nature of and point of philosophy itself.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Guy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Routledge, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction Philosophy and mystification; 1 Understanding nonsense; 2 Following and formalization; 3 Infinity; 4 Miracles; 5 How to tell your friends from machines; 6 Nature and necessity; 7 Skepticism about skepticism; 8 Fool's intelligence; 9 Language and the society of others; 10 Deus sive natura science nature and ideology; 11 On misunderstanding science; 12 History and human nature; 13 Newton Euclid and the foundation of geometry; 14 Coda philosophy and history; Notes; Index.