Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiv, 282 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "Avrum Stroll accepts the ancient tradition that one of the tasks of philosophy is to give an accurate account of the world's features, both animate and inanimate. But, he contends, because these features are inexhaustibly complex, no single theory or conceptual model can provide a complete account. Stroll's approach is piecemeal and example-oriented. In stressing the importance of examples, his work runs counter to one of the most powerful and seductive ways of thinking about the world - the Platonic tradition, which denigrates examples in the search for essences. Stroll favors pluralism, on the ground that this is how the world is."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. A Bradford book

Uniform title

1. Bradford book.

Subject

1. Philosophy
2. Description (Philosophy)
3. Philosophy
4. philosophy
5. description (activity)
6. 08.03 philosophy and methodology of philosophy
7. Philosophie
8. Filosoferen
9. Taal
10. Realisme (filosofie)
11. Scepticisme
12. Skepticism

Contents

1. 1. Scepticism Undone -- 2. Reflections on Water -- 3. Microscopic and Macroscopic -- 4. Examples -- 5. Reference Theories and Fiction -- 6. Holism: The Chicken or the Egg? -- 7. Direct versus Indirect Realism.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269) and index.