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The Genealogy of Knowledge - Analytical Essays in the History of Philosophy and Science (Hardcover)
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The Genealogy of Knowledge - Analytical Essays in the History of Philosophy and Science (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1997, this volume expands the analytical
philosophical tradition in the face of parochial Anglo-American
philosophical interests. The essays making up the section on
'Antiquity' share one concern: to show that there are largely
unrecognised but radical differences between the way in which
certain fundamental questions - concerning the nature of number,
sense perception, and scepticism - were thought of in antiquity and
the way in which they were thought of from the 17th century
onwards. Part 2, on early modern thought, explores the theoretical
characterisation of the role of experiment in early modern physical
theory through Galileo's embracing of experiments, along with
Descartes' automata and issues in a relatively neglected but
especially intractable part of Descartes' philosophy: how he
conceives of what a successful inference consists in and what it is
that makes it successful. The final section deals with the
philosophical foundations of physical theory, the distinction
between the human and the natural sciences, the
philosophical-cum-scientific foundations of Marx's idea of
socialism, and Nietzche's criticisms of the very notion of science,
concluding that Nietzsche's probing questions cannot be dismissed,
as he has opened up some genuinely challenging issues which we
ignore at our peril.
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