On transforming philosophy
a metaphilosophical inquiry
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Word Count
72,250 words, Guess
Page Count
289 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL787591M
- ISBN-100813306663
- OCLC Control Number32666649
- OCLC Control Numberontransformingph00niel_970
- Library of Congress Control Number95019899
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- Goodreads4954035
Classifications
- DDC101
- LCCB945.N533 O6 1995
Description
Since Rorty, the crisis of method and interests in philosophy has been at the forefront of metaphilosophy. In this book, Kai Nielsen, one of the most prominent critics of philosophy-as-usual, examines critically the most important claims made on behalf of philosophy. After rejecting as chimerical the ambitious claims of traditional, especially foundational, epistemology and metaphysics, he presents the case for a more modest view of what philosophy can accomplish. Nielsen insists that philosophy must be devoted to actual problems of real people in everyday life. Influenced substantively by Dewey and more methodologically by Rawls, he carves out a defensible terrain for philosophy to inhabit - a terrain cleared of the more extravagant but implausible claims made by traditional philosophy.
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