Escape from Scepticism

Escape from Scepticism

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  • Author: Christopher Derrick
  • Publisher: Ignatius Press
  • ISBN: 1681491540
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 162

The brilliant English writer Christopher Derrick presents a disturbing indictment of today's colleges and universities and the troubled condition of liberal education. The occasion for his writing this book was a visit to Thomas Aquinas College in California which deeply impressed Derrick with its true liberal and Catholic education. This small independent college convinced him of the need for reform in Catholic higher education today, and he uses the example of this college as the way this reform should be carried out. "This book is comparable to Newman's Idea of a University. Derrick has wit and a brilliant aphoristic style. This book could well serve as a manual for the reform of Catholic higher education today." -Paul Hallet, The National Catholic Register


Escape from Scepticism

Escape from Scepticism

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  • Author: Christopher Derrick
  • Publisher: Ignatius Press
  • ISBN: 0898708486
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 140


Hume's True Scepticism

Hume's True Scepticism

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  • Author: Donald C. Ainslie
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 0191064203
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 457

David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume's True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise, his deepest engagement with sceptical arguments. Hume notes there that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless. Donald C. Ainslie argues that Hume uses our reactions to the sceptical arguments as evidence in favour of his model of the mind. If we were self-conscious subjects, superintending our rational and sensory beliefs, nothing should stop us from embracing the sceptical conclusions. But instead our minds are bundles of perceptions with our beliefs being generated, not by reflective assent, but by the imagination's association of ideas. We are not forced into the sceptical quagmire. Nonetheless, we can reflect and philosophy uses this capacity to question whether we should believe our instinctive rational and sensory verdicts. It turns out that we cannot answer this question because the reflective investigation of the mind interferes with the associative processes involved in reason and sensation. We thus must accept our rational and sensory capacities without being able to vindicate or undermine them philosophically. Hume's True Scepticism addresses Hume's theory of representation; his criticisms of Locke, Descartes, and other predecessors; his account of the imagination; his understanding of perceptions and sensory belief; and his bundle theory of the mind and his later rejection of it.


The Return of Scepticism

The Return of Scepticism

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  • Author: Gianni Paganini
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9401701318
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 501

This collection of articles (the Vercelli conference proceedings) places the theme of scepticism within its philosophical tradition. It explores the English philosophical thinkers, the French context, as well as major Italian figures and Spanish culture. It pays special attention to the relationships between history of philosophical ideas and the problems rising from the history of sciences (medicine, physics, linguistics, historical scholarship) in the 17th and the18th centuries.


The History of Scepticism

The History of Scepticism

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  • Author: Richard H. Popkin
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0195355393
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 440

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material on: the introduction of ancient skepticism into Renaissance Europe; the role of Savonarola and his disciples in bringing Sextus Empiricus to the attention of European thinkers; and new material on Henry More, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, G.W. Leibniz, Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet, and Pierre Bayle. The bibliography has also been updated.


The History of Scepticism

The History of Scepticism

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  • Author: Richard Henry Popkin
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 0195107683
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 440

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Mind

Mind

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  • Category : Electronic journals
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 634

A quarterly review of philosophy.


W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

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  • Author: Jack Quin
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0192654861
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

This book comprehensively examines the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats, drawing on extensive archival research to offer revelatory new readings of the poet. The book traces Yeats's literary and critical engagement with Celtic Revival statuary, public monuments in Dublin, the coin designs of the Irish Free State, abstract sculpture by the Vorticists and modernists, and a variety of carvings, decorative sculptures, and objets d'art. By charting Yeats's early art school education in Dublin, his attempts to raise funds for public monuments in the city, and to secure commissions for his favourite sculptors, the book documents a lifelong interest in the plastic arts. New and original readings of Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose criticism emerge from this concertedly inter-arts and interdisciplinary study.


The Cape Monthly Magazine

The Cape Monthly Magazine

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  • Category : South Africa
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 402


The Toils of Scepticism

The Toils of Scepticism

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  • Author: Jonathan Barnes
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521043878
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 180

The topic of this book is the major argument-forms of the Greek sceptic, Sextus Empiricus, who lived and wrote in the second century AD. The author gives a lucid explanation and analysis of these forms, both as historically important phenomena and as philosophically significant arguments.