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What Are Philosophical Systems?

By Jules Vuillemin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780511753336, 9780521305402, 9780521112284
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511753336
Google Books ID
5zaUPwAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2071329 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
174\174
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book presents a learned and ingenious attempt to understand the origin and nature of philosophical inquiry. It draws on material from numerous disciplines and from all periods of philosophy and provides challenging arguments on a wide range of topics. The author constructs a hierarchy of ontological claims, beginning with perceptual experience, moving to language and science. He traces subtle and unexpected relations among these and concludes by offering a system for classifying philosophical theories which reveals why they take the form they do and why philosophical dispute is ineradicable. The book offers many fresh insights into such topics as the nature of experience, the nature of language and that of philosophy itself. It will interest a wide range of philosophers, in particular those concerned with categorical schemes, grammar and ontology.

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