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Professional Philosophy
Thomas D. Perry
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Description for Professional Philosophy
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 840.
Over the past several decades serious work in philosophy has become almost wholly inaccessible to people who do not specialize in the subject. To be sure, the writings of Aristotle and Kant were never easy reading, and even relatively untechnical philosophers like Mill or Santayana de mand careful study if we are really to understand them. But during the last generation or two the situation has steadily become worse for readers who may want to know what philosophers of their own time are doing. And this is true even though many writers have been learning to avoid the unnecessary jargon ... Read more
Over the past several decades serious work in philosophy has become almost wholly inaccessible to people who do not specialize in the subject. To be sure, the writings of Aristotle and Kant were never easy reading, and even relatively untechnical philosophers like Mill or Santayana de mand careful study if we are really to understand them. But during the last generation or two the situation has steadily become worse for readers who may want to know what philosophers of their own time are doing. And this is true even though many writers have been learning to avoid the unnecessary jargon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027720726
SKU
V9789027720726
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Reviews for Professional Philosophy
`Perry has a real mastery of the subject and he writes clerly and interestingly. His explanations of extremely difficult notions such as Russell's theory of descriptions, Strawson's criticism of that theory and the more recent work of Quine and Kripke are extremely lucid... Perry's work seems to me excellent.' Paul Edwards, Brooklyn ... Read more