| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xv, 347 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
A new history of Western philosophy ; v. 4 |
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Kenny, Anthony, 1931-
New history of Western philosophy ; v. 4.
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| Note |
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Bentham to Nietzsche -- Bentham's Utilitarianism -- The development of John Stuart Mill -- Schopenhauer's philosophy of the will -- Ethics and religion in Kierkegaard -- Dialectical materialism -- Darwin and natural selection -- John Henry Newman -- Nietzsche -- Peirce to Strawson -- C.S Peirce and pragmatism -- The logicism of Frege -- Psychology and pragmatism in William James -- British idealism and its critics -- Russell on Mathematics, logic, and language -- Wittgenstein's tractatus -- Logical positivism -- Wittgenstein's Later philosophy -- Analytical philosophy after Wittgenstein -- Freud to Derrida -- Freud and psychoanalysis -- Husserl's phenomenology -- The existentialism of Heidegger -- The existentialism of Sartre -- Jacques Derrida -- Logic -- Mill's empiricist Logic -- Frege's refoundation of logic -- Introduction and abduction in Peirce -- The saga of principia mathematica -- Modern modal logic -- Language -- Frege on sense and reference -- The pragmatists on language and truth -- Russell's theory of description -- The picture theory of the proposition -- Language-games and private languages -- Epistemology -- Two eloquent empiricists -- Peirce on the methods of science -- Frege on logic, psychology, and epistemology -- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description -- Husserl's epoche -- Wittgenstein on certainty -- Metaphysics -- Varieties of Idealism -- Metaphysics and teleology -- Realism vs. nominalism -- First, second and third in Peirce -- The metaphysics of logical atomism -- Bad and good metaphysics -- Philosophy of mind -- Bentham on intention and motive -- Reason, understanding and will -- Experimental vs. philosophical psychology -- The Freudian unconscious -- Philosophical psychology in the tractatus -- Intentionality -- Wittgenstein's later Philosophy of mind -- Ethics -- The greatest happiness of the greatest number -- Modifications of utilitarianism -- Schopenhauer on renunciation -- The moral ascent in Kierkegaard -- Nietzsche and the transvaluation of values -- Analytical ethics -- Aesthetics -- The beautiful and the sublime -- The aesthetics of Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard on music -- Nietzsche on tragedy -- Art and morality -- Art for art's sake -- Political Philosophy -- Utilitarianism and liberalism -- Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer on women -- Marx on capital and labor -- Closed and open societies -- God -- Faith vs. alienation -- The theism of John Stuart Mill -- Creation and evolution -- Newman's philosophy of religion -- The death of God and the survival of religion -- Freud on religious illusion -- Philosophical theology after Wittgenstein. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01061071
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1999
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| ISBN |
9780199546374 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0199546371 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780198752790 (hbk.) |
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0198752792 (hbk.) |
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