Wisdom, Information and Wonder : What is Knowledge For?

Midgley, Mary

Routledge（2016/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 286 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138141261
• DDC分類 121

Full Description

In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in the high-tech world, and criticizes conceptions of philosophy that support this mode of thinking.

Contents

Part One CAN SPECIALIZATION DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH?; Chapter 1 Chapter One MOON-MONSTERS AND FREE PEOPLE; Chapter 2 Chapter Two WISDOM AND CONTEMPLATION; Chapter 3 Chapter Three THE CITY OF ORGANIZED THOUGHT AND ITS TOWN-PLANNERS; Part Two THE ROLE OF SCIENCE; Chapter 4 Chapter Four SCEPTICISM AND PERSONAL IDENTITY; Chapter 5 Chapter Five PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL; Chapter 6 Chapter Six AUTONOMY AND ISOLATIONISM; Chapter 7 Chapter Seven RIGOUR AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CONTROVERSY; Chapter 8 Chapter Eight THE SECLUSION OF SCIENCE; Part Three THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY; Chapter 9 Chapter Nine CANPHILOSOPHY BE NEUTRAL?; Chapter 10 Chapter Ten THE WORK OF PURIFICATION; Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven THE PROBLEM OF THE UNKNOWN; Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve THE QUESTION OF CERTAINTY AND THE REAL PHILOSOPHICAL REVOLUTION; Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen WHAT FOUNDATIONS ARE; Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen MOORE AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY; Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen FACTS AND VALUES; Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen THE FLIGHT FROM BLAME; Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen THE CLASH OF SYSTEMS; Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen EMPIRICISM AND THE UNSPEAKABLE; Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen WHAT EMPIRICISM IS; Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty STYLE AND SUBSTANCE; Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty-One LANGUAGE FOR SOLITARIES; Chapter 22 Chapter Twenty-Two ESCAPING FROM SOLITUDE; Chapter 23 Chapter Twenty-Three PHILOSOPHIZING OUT IN THE WORLD SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING NOTES INDEX;