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Philosophers Past and Present: Selected Essays

By Barry Stroud

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2011
ISBN
0199608598, 9780199608591
LCC
B1498 .P49 2011
Google Books ID
TnFVKzncKWkC
Open Library ID
OL25113358M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1216863 bytes)
Pages
520\520
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day. Seven of the essays focus on David Hume, and examine the sources and implications of his "naturalism" and his "scepticism." Three others deal with the legacy of that "naturalism" in the twentieth century. In each case Stroud moves beyond providing a description of historical contexts and developments, and confronts the philosophical issues as they present themselves to the philosophers in question.

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