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Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey is a 1994 book by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, in which the author tries to "acquaint the reader with the principal arguments, concepts and questions of modern philosophy, as this subject is taught in English-speaking universities."
Ned Block (ed.), Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, 1981; Mario Bunge and Rubén Ardilla, Philosophy of Psychology, 1987; Paul E. Meehl, "Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology", 1992; Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, 2002
The book is the second volume in a series of three written as an introduction to Western philosophy for a broad audience. [2] In his 2000 publication, The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Gottlieb described the first of two explosions of thought that contributed to western philosophical traditions—starting with the Athenian philosophers, Socrates ...
The book has been reviewed in Philosophy in Review, Mind and Studia Leibnitiana. [1] George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson calls it a "lucid and intelligent guide to the history of modern philosophy." Anthony Manser points out that Scruton reveals his commitment to analytic tradition and is clearly out of sympathy with philosophers like Heidegger ...
Modern philosophy traditionally begins with René Descartes and his aphorism "I think, therefore I am". In the early seventeenth century the bulk of philosophy was dominated by Scholasticism, written by theologians and drawing upon Plato, Aristotle, and early Church writings. Descartes argued that many predominant Scholastic metaphysical ...
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (German: Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen) is a 1985 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author reconstructs and deals in depth with a number of philosophical approaches to the critique of modern reason and the Enlightenment "project" since Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich ...
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For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand is a 1961 work by the philosopher Ayn Rand. It is her first long non-fiction book. It is her first long non-fiction book. Much of the material consists of excerpts from Rand's novels, supplemented by a long title essay that focuses on the history of philosophy .