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Grand theories and everyday beliefs : science, philosophy, and their histories / Wallace Matson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matson, Wallace I., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Belief and doubt.
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Science, philosophy, and their histories
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This unconventional book by a distinguished historian of philosophy tells the story of how humans became rational beings.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. 1. Before Miletus
- A brief history of coping
- Language
- High and low beliefs
- The "will to believe"
- Eden
- Babylon
- pt. 2. Miletus to Alexandria
- Miletus: the invention of science
- Anaximander and Anaximenes
- Science and philosophy come to Italy
- Athens I
- Atomism
- Athens II: Plato
- Athens III: Aristotle
- Alexandria
- Beliefs about believers
- pt. 3. The legacy of Christianity
- Jerusalem collides with Athens
- Cartesianism
- Miletus preserved I: Hobbes
- Institutions
- Miletus preserved II: Spinoza
- The strange case of David Hume
- Ethics without edification
- L'envoi
- Conclusion?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).
- ISBN:
- 1-283-35279-6
- 9786613352798
- 0-19-981270-5
- OCLC:
- 922970715
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