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Author Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018, author.
Title What is philosophy for? / by Mary Midgley.
Publisher London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.


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Descript vi, 223 pages ; 21 cm
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Contents Part one. The search for signposts. 1.Directions ; 2.Do ideas get out of date? ; 3.What is research? ; 4.Clashes of method ; 5.Signposting problems ; 6.What is matter? ; 7.Quantum queries ; 8.What is progress? ; 9.Perspectives and paradoxes: Rousseau and his intellectual explosives ; 10.Mill and the different kinds of freedom ; 11.Making sense of toleration -- Part two. Tempting visions of science. 12.The force of world-pictures ; 13.The past does not die ; 14.Scientism: The new sedative -- Part three. Mindlessness and machine-worship. 15.The power-struggle ; 16.Missing persons ; 17.Oracles -- Part Four. Singularities and the cosmos. 18.What kind of singularity? ; 19.Can intelligence be measured? ; 20.What is materialism? ; 21.The cult of impersonality ; 22.Matter and reality ; 23.The mystique of scientism ; 24.The strange world-picture.
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Author Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018, author.
Subject Philosophy.
Descript vi, 223 pages ; 21 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Part one. The search for signposts. 1.Directions ; 2.Do ideas get out of date? ; 3.What is research? ; 4.Clashes of method ; 5.Signposting problems ; 6.What is matter? ; 7.Quantum queries ; 8.What is progress? ; 9.Perspectives and paradoxes: Rousseau and his intellectual explosives ; 10.Mill and the different kinds of freedom ; 11.Making sense of toleration -- Part two. Tempting visions of science. 12.The force of world-pictures ; 13.The past does not die ; 14.Scientism: The new sedative -- Part three. Mindlessness and machine-worship. 15.The power-struggle ; 16.Missing persons ; 17.Oracles -- Part Four. Singularities and the cosmos. 18.What kind of singularity? ; 19.Can intelligence be measured? ; 20.What is materialism? ; 21.The cult of impersonality ; 22.Matter and reality ; 23.The mystique of scientism ; 24.The strange world-picture.
ISBN 9781350051072
1350051071
Author Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018, author.
Subject Philosophy.

Subject Philosophy.
Descript vi, 223 pages ; 21 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Part one. The search for signposts. 1.Directions ; 2.Do ideas get out of date? ; 3.What is research? ; 4.Clashes of method ; 5.Signposting problems ; 6.What is matter? ; 7.Quantum queries ; 8.What is progress? ; 9.Perspectives and paradoxes: Rousseau and his intellectual explosives ; 10.Mill and the different kinds of freedom ; 11.Making sense of toleration -- Part two. Tempting visions of science. 12.The force of world-pictures ; 13.The past does not die ; 14.Scientism: The new sedative -- Part three. Mindlessness and machine-worship. 15.The power-struggle ; 16.Missing persons ; 17.Oracles -- Part Four. Singularities and the cosmos. 18.What kind of singularity? ; 19.Can intelligence be measured? ; 20.What is materialism? ; 21.The cult of impersonality ; 22.Matter and reality ; 23.The mystique of scientism ; 24.The strange world-picture.
ISBN 9781350051072
1350051071
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