The Tree of Knowledge and Other Essays
Biographical note
Georg Henrik von Wright, a Finnish philosopher, held a research Professorship in the Academy of Finland. He was also Professor at Cornell University. His chief publications are A treatise on induction and probability, An Essay in Modal Logic, Logical Studies, Norm and Action, The Varieties of Goodness, Explanation and Understanding, Wittgenstein, Philosophical Papers I-III.
Readership
Philosophers, historians of ideas, literary critics, and educated laymen.
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This book reveals the antique pedigree of a now commonplace term, "Inspiration," an essential creation-myth presently propelling notions of "self-expression" in modern art-making. Knowledge of the ancient sources and later evolution of such supposedly "modernist" fixations makes a significant ...
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This book is an original interpretation of the idea of the Good that is based on the interplay between words (logoi) and dramatic action (erga) in Plato’s dialogues Philebus, The Republic, Phaedrus, Euthyphro, and the Apology.
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"Togetherness" is the concrete primal "that" by which we explain and analyze concrete things and situations: an intrinsic interactive principle of integrity, growth, reflection, and behavior. In five sections, this book describes cultural, personal, argumentative, religious and philosophical ...
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This study in comparative social and political philosophy gives a well-argued account of how ideological and even utopian views are sociologically rooted and how this fact has been reflected in the social history of Asian countries like India and China and some Euro-American countries during the ...
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In surveying the field of the anthropology of aesthetics, the author argues that the phenomenon of cultural relativism in easthetic preference may be accounted for by demonstrating that culturally varying notions of beauty are inspired by culturally varying sociocultural ideals.
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This book provides a defence of epistemological relativism against its most powerful opponents. It takes as its point of departure some key arguments - especially those concerning rule following and forms of life - of the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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A collection of papers dealing with history as a way of knowing, not a mode of discourse. It attempts to render intelligible explaining the past and knowing the past, mainly systematically but also through attention to Collingwood's work.
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Without God or His Doubles offers a sympathetic but critical interpretation of the philosophy of Richard Rorty. It shows that Rorty's engagement with the epistemological and ontological aspects of realism and relativism is animated by a quasi-religious passion for human emancipation and human ...
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In Criticism and the History of Science Karl Popper's falsificationist conception of science is developed and defended against criticisms raised by Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend.
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