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Informationen zum Autor Ernest Gellner Klappentext The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America. Zusammenfassung These essays gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions including a discussion of individuals including Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Philosophy in general; Chapter 1 The devil in modern philosophy; Chapter 2 The crisis in the humanities and the mainstream of philosophy; Chapter 3 Reflections on philosophy, especially in America; Chapter 4 On being wrong; Chapter 5 Is belief really necessary?; Part 2 On ethics; Chapter 6 Maxims; Chapter 7 Ethics and logic; Chapter 8 Knowing how and validity; Chapter 9 Morality and ‘je ne sais quoi’ concepts; Part 3 Some ancestors; Chapter 10 French eighteenth-century materialism; Part 4 Philosophy in particular; Chapter 11 Thought and time, or the reluctant relativist; Chapter 12 Poker player; Chapter 13 Ayer’s epistle to the Russians; Chapter 14 Ayer on Moore and Russell; Chapter 15 The belief machine; Part 5 Psychologists and others; Chapter 16 The ascent of life; Chapter 17 Man’s picture of his world; Chapter 18 On Freud and Reich; Chapter 19 A genetic psychologist’s confessions; Chapter 20 Eysenck: seeing emperors naked; Chapter 21 On Chomsky;
