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Professional Philosophy

What It Is and Why It Matters

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  • © 1986

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  1. Thomas D. Perry

    1. Buffalo, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Four Stages of Reflection

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      Pages 3-20

    3. Defending Common Sense

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      Pages 21-36

    4. Descriptive Metaphysics

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      Pages 37-53

    5. Conceptual Reform

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      Pages 54-66

  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Metaphysics Out of Logic

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      Pages 69-87

    3. Inside the Revolution

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      Pages 88-108

    4. A Passage to America

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      Pages 109-123

    5. Recent Philosophy of Language

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      Pages 124-142

  4. Part Three

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Values in General

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      Pages 145-154

    3. Ethical Theory

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      Pages 155-175

    4. Applied Ethics

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      Pages 176-192

  5. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

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      Pages 193-204

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 205-236
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About this book

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 that disfigures so much of traditional philosophy. No matter how direct the English style of recent philosophers may be, their methodic purposes and argument style will re­ main obscure to anyone who has not gone to considerable trouble to be introduced to them. Then too, the closeness of their analysis and the con­ sequent narrowness of many of the issues pursued make it hard to catch onto the argument without some familiarity with slightly earlier discus­ sions from which those issues emerged. All of this helps to account for the rather common but false belief that professional philosophy is now only a collection of technical exercises that could hardly be of interest to anyone but the philosophers themselves.

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`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 College of the City University of New York

Authors and Affiliations

  • Buffalo, USA

    Thomas D. Perry

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Professional Philosophy

  • Book Subtitle: What It Is and Why It Matters

  • Authors: Thomas D. Perry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4532-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2071-9Due: 30 November 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2072-6Published: 30 November 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4532-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 256

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy

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