The Parmenidean Ascent / Michael Della Rocca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Della Rocca, Michael, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parmenides.

Monism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 317 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2020

Summary:

'The Parmenidean Ascent' is a full-throated and wide-ranging defense of an extreme form of monism or the denial of all distinctions, a form of monism rarely seen since the time of the pre-Socratic philosopher, Parmenides. At once historically sensitive and deeply engaged with trends in recent and contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of action, epistemology, and philosophy of language, it aims, on rationalist grounds and in a skeptical spirit, to challenge the content of-and to overturn the methods of much of contemporary philosophy.

Contents:

The Parmenidean Ascent Proem 1. The Call of Parmenides 2. Substance: A Litany of Failure 3. Substance: The Underlying Problem 4. Action 5. Knowledge 6. Meaning 7. Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy 8. Metaphysical Explanation 9. Paradox and the Joy of Self-Undermining 10. Tamers, Deniers, and Me 11. The Taming of Philosophy 12. Tractatus Parmenideo-Philosophicus 13. The Parmenidean Ascent

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-751096-5

0-19-751097-3

0-19-751095-7