Becoming Collingwood - Central Themes

This book explores Collingwood's philosophical beliefs on art, taste, history, and others central ideas of his time.

List of contents

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Nature of Persons
Chapter 2: A Theory of Practice in Art
Chapter 3: Margaret Hattersley Bulley, Understanding Art, and the Case for Examples
Chapter 4: Artists as Persons
Chapter 5: The Capriciousness of Play
Chapter 6: A Logic of Question and Answer
Chapter 7: Understanding David Hume
Chapter 8: Theoretical Topics in History
Chapter 9: Eating and Dining: An Anthropological Perspective
Chapter 10: Food and the Association of Perceptions
Chapter 11: The Evidential Value of Testimony
Chapter 12: On Certainty in History
Chapter 13: Conceptual Change and Incapsulation
Chapter 14: Mead's Experimental and Pragmatic Philosophy of History
Chapter 15: Realism and Its Demise
Chapter 16: The Nature of Consciousness
Chapter 17: Racial Considerations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Spencer Kiefer Wertz is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

Product details

• Authors: Spencer Kiefer Wertz
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2024
• EAN: 9780761874447
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7444-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Biography: philosophy & social sciences, Philosophy: aesthetics, ancient philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500