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Author:   Stephen Hetherington
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781138936164

ISBN 10:   1138936162
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   09 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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CONTENTS Preface and acknowledgements List of contributors Philosophical greatness: Introducing the very idea Stephen Hetherington Plato, Platonism, and the history of philosophy Lloyd P. Gerson Zhuangzi’s suggestiveness: Sceptical questions Karyn Lai Aristotle as systematic philosopher: Essence, necessity, and explanation in theory and practice David Bronstein Attention to greatness: Buddhaghosa Jonardon Ganeri Aquinas’s complex web Jeffrey Hause Descartes as a great philosopher: Comprehensive physics, mechanistic embodiment, and methodological systematicity Gary Hatfield Émilie du Châtelet on women’s minds and education Karen Detlefsen What’s so great about Hume? Don Garrett Is Kant a great moral philosopher? Allen Wood ‘How is metaphysics possible?’ Kant’s great question and his great answer Nicholas F. Stang Nietzsche: This time it’s personal Ken Gemes What makes Peirce a great philosopher? Cheryl Misak Wittgenstein’s un-ruley solution to the problem of philosophy David Macarthur

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What is the difference between a merely good philosopher and a great one? Lists of the great (and usually dead) philosophers presuppose an answer to this question but it's far from obvious what the answer is. The distinguished contributors to this terrific volume advance our understanding of what great philosophy is and explain the greatness of some of the greatest philosophers. --Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick

What is the difference between a merely good philosopher and a great one? Lists of the great (and usually dead) philosophers presuppose an answer to this question but it's far from obvious what the answer is. The distinguished contributors to this terrific volume advance our understanding of what great philosophy is and explain the greatness of some of the greatest philosophers. --Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick

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Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His publications include Epistemology’s Paradox (1992), Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (2001), How to Know (2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (2016).

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