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Graham McFee

Philosophy and the 'Dazzling Ideal' of Science

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Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science. In this book, Graham McFee defends the claims of philosophy against attempts to minimize either philosophy's possibility or its importance by deploying a contrast with what Wittgenstein characterized as the dazzling ideal of science. This 'dazzling ideal' incorporates both the imagined completeness of scientific explanation-whereby completing its project would leave nothing unexplained-and the exceptionless character of the associated conception of causality. On such a scientistic world-view, what need is there for philosophy? In his… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-030-21674-0
  • EAN: 9783030216740
  • Produktnummer: 31943365
  • Verlag: Springer Nature EN
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 338 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 0 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
  • Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor


Graham McFee is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Brighton, UK, and a member of the Philosophy Department at California State University Fullerton. He has lectured and published nationally and internationally on, especially, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the aesthetics of dance.

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