Redirecting Philosophy: Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan - Softcover

Meynell, Hugo A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802081401 ISBN 13: 9780802081407

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1998

Synopsis

In a contemporary climate that tends to dismiss philosophy as an outmoded and increasingly useless discipline, philosophers have been forced to reconsider much of what they have formerly taken for granted. Redirecting Philosophy, Hugo Meynell's reassessment of the foundations and nature of knowledge, is a compelling response to this trend.

This illuminating study surveys and analysis the views of the most influential contemporary thinkers in the English-speaking world (Wittgenstein, Strawson, Searle, Popper, Feyerabend, Kuhn, Rorty, Lonergan) and in continental philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas). In setting those views against the background of classical philosophy, Meynell offers fresh perspectives on the basic problems that occupy philosophers today - problems such as scepticism, truth, experience, metaphysics, method, power, humane values, and the role of science.

An insightful, up-to-date guide to philosophy and the theory of science, Meynell's book will be stimulating and valuable reading both in and out of the classroom.

About this title

About the Author

Hugo A. Meynell is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary.

From the Back Cover

'This book is timely and stirring, apt to give heart to all those who like to reflect critically and are prepared to give human thought and human potentialities their full due. The style is elegant, forceful, and above all, pellucidly clear.'

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802081401
• ISBN 13: 9780802081407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336