A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--History--Anecdotes.

Philosophy.

Philosophers--Anecdotes.

Philosophers.

Philosophy--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, from antiquity to the current era. Rescher introduces the major thinkers, texts, and historical periods of Western philosophy, recounting many of the stories philosophers have used over time to engage with issues of philosophical concern: questions of meaning, truth, knowledge, value, action, and ethics. Rescher's anecdotes touch on a wide range of themes--from logic to epistemology, ethics to metaphysics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Thematic Clusters; Introduction; Part 1. Antiquity to 500 AD; 1. The Tower of Babel; 2. Aesop's Donkey; 3. Xenophanes's Animal Theologians; 4. Pythagoras's Numbers; 5. Heraclitus's River; 6. Anaximander's Earth; 7. Zeno's Races; 8. The Atomists' Nature; 9. The Atomists' Worlds; 10. Socrates's Disappointment; 11. Eubulides's Riddle and Epimendes's Lie; 12. Plato's Republic; 13. Plato's Ring of Gyges; 14. Plato's Demiurge; 15. Plato's Knowledge; 16. Aristotle's Sea Battle; 17. Aristotle's Precept on Precision; 18. Aristotle's Golden Mean; 19. Pilate's Truth

20. Archimedes's Lever21. The Ship of Theseus; 22. Tertullian's Absurdity; 23. St. Augustine's Time; Part 2. The Middle Ages, 500-1500; 24. Avicenna's Plank; 25. Buridan's Ass; 26. Omar Khayyám's Finger; 27. King Alfonso's Boast; 28. Scholasticism's Omnipotence Perplex; 29. Aquinas's Proofs; 30. Averroes's Truth; 31. Machiavelli's Prince; Part 3. Early Modernity, 1500-1800; 32. The Valladolid Debate; 33. More's Utopia; 34. Dr. Faustus's Bargain; 35. Hobbes's Leviathan; 36. Descartes's Deceiver; 37. Descartes's Ergo; 38. Descartes's Firm Foundation; 39. Calderon's Dream; 40. Pascal's Wager

41. Spinoza's Worm and Leibniz's Leap42. Huygens's Planetarians; 43. Locke's Locked Room; 44. Leibniz's Textual Limit; 45. Leibniz's Windmill; 46. Leibniz's Mythic Goddess; 47. Aldrich's Box Paradoxes; 48. Mandeville's Bees; 49. Hume's Self-Seeking; 50. Hume's Shade of Blue; 51. Kant's Things in Themselves; 52. Kant's Errand Boy; 53. Kant's Peaceful Vision; 54. Kant's Starry Heaven; 55. Kant's Reorientation; 56. Condorcet's Paradox; 57. Hegel's Reality; 58. Schopenhauer's Annoyance; Part 4. The Recent Past, 1800-1900; 59. J. S. Mill's Epiphany; 60. Darwin's Ape; 61. Saxe's Puzzling Elephant

62. Herbert Spencer's Impatience63. Lord Kelvin's Sun; 64. The Lady or the Tiger; 65. William James's Freedom; 66. William James's Squirrel; 67. Kropotkin's Cooperators; 68. Nietzsche's Revaluation; 69. Nietzsche's Long Run; 70. Lasswitz's Library; 71. Frege's Morning Star; 72. Durkheim's Suicides; 73. The Monkey's Paw; 74. Wells's Neomen; 75. Borel's Monkeys; 76. Russell's King of France; 77. Russell's Chicken; 78. Angell's Illusion; 79. Richardson's Coastline; 80. Duchamp's Urinal; 81. Wittgenstein's Poker; 82. Collingwood's Presuppositions; 83. Collingwood's History Trap

84. Teilhard's OmegaPart 5. The Current Era, 1900 to the Present; 85. Sci-Fi Psychology; 86. Ayer's Nonsense; 87. Popper's Falsity; 88. Boulding's Menace; 89. Austin's Verbs; 90. Austin's Excuses; 91. Turing's Test; 92. Urmson's Apples; 93. Simon's Satisficing; 94. The Prisoner's Dilemma; 95. A Streetcar Named Disaster; 96. Putnam's Twin Earth; 97. Dr. Psycho's Prescription; 98. Vagrant Predicates; 99. Searle's Chinese Room; 100. The Bell Curve's Slant; 101. Derrida's Demolition; Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822980445

0822980444

OCLC:

908509753