On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Chuck Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > I got Guy Robinson's collection of essays, called Philosophy and > Mystification, (1998, 2003p). It is arranged in the form of what amount to > classical introductory problems in analytic philosophy, centered on logical > positivism of the US UK variety. This school is a combination of basic > empirical claims and strong dependence on logic, most influenced by > Wittgenstein in Robinson's case. In classical terms, Aristotle is central > for Robinson. > > The general problems discussed are those in the table of contents: 1), > Understanding Nonsense, 2) Following and formalization, 3) Infinity, 4) > Miracles, 5) How to tell your friends from machines, 6) Nature and > necessity, 7) Skepticism about skepticism, 8) Fool's intelligence, 9) > Language and the society of others, 10)Des sive natura: science, nature, and > ideology, 11) On misunderstanding science, 12) History and human nature, 13) > Newton, Euclid, and the foundation of Geometry, 14) Coda: philosophy and > history.
Thanks for sharing this excellent and detailed review. This is a formidable set of topics for one book to cover! Does this author use the term "Nonsense" with the same meaning that Wittgenstein famously did when he wrote at the end of his Tractatus that if the reader has understood him correctly, much of the book should be properly recognized as "Nonsense"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense#Wittgenstein -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
