Australian Realism
The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson

This book outlines the realist and pluralist philosophy of John Anderson, Australia's most original thinker.

A. J. Baker (Author), Anthony Quinton (Introduction by)

9780521104227, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

176 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.9 cm, 1.14 kg

This book outlines the realist and pluralist philosophy of John Anderson, Australia's most original thinker, whose articles and teaching at Sydney University have deeply influenced Australian intellectual life. Several main themes run though his work, but Anderson never gave an overall account of his views. This is remedied here: in exhibiting the range of Anderson's thought, from logic, epistemology and theory of mind, to language and social theory, Baker's work sketches realism as a systematic philosophical position and shows something of the history of ideas in Australia. This book will be of particular interest to historians of modern philosophy and those studying realism.

Introduction
Preface
1. Realism
2. rejection of rationalism and relativism
3. Empiricism and pluralism
4. Knowledge and mind
5. Universals and particulars
6. Formal logic
7. Space, time and the categories
8. Causality
religion
positivism and linguistic philosophy
9. Social theory, ethics and aesthetics
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: History of Western philosophy [HPC]