Philosophy outside-in : a critique of academic reason /

Raises some basic questions about the way that academic philosophy has been conducted over the past quarter-century and, in doing so, offers a strong counter-statement to the overly specialised character of much recent work in the analytic mainstream.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norris, Christopher, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. How not to defeat scepticism: why anti-realism won't do the trick
  • 2. Great philosophy: discovery, invention and the uses of error
  • 3. Under which king, Bezonian? Experimental philosophy versus thought experiment
  • 4. Outside the box: on the 'extended mind' hypothesis
  • 5. Inaesthetics and transitory ontology: the case of political song
  • 6. Speculative realism: an interim report
  • 7. Provoking philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida.