The Impulse to Philosophise

In a series of stimulating essays fourteen distinguished thinkers examine philosophy and their own engagement with it.

A. Phillips Griffiths (Author)

9780521439817, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 December 1992

248 pages
23.3 x 16 x 1.5 cm, 0.403 kg

What impulses lead us to ask philosophical questions and pursue philosophical enquiry? In a series of stimulating essays fourteen distinguished thinkers examine philosophy and their own engagement with it. Titles such as 'How philosophers (who lose their faith) redefine their subject', 'Philosophical plumbing', 'Putting into order what we already know' and 'Is philosophy a 'theory of everything'?' indicate the range of topics and the lively and provocative ways in which they are tackled.

The Examined Life re-examined
Trouble with Leprechauns
On Why Philosophers Redefine their Subject
Some Philosophers I have not Known
The Roots of Philosophy
Re-engaging with Real Arguments
Can Philosophy speak about Life?
Congenital Transcendentalism and the loneliness which is the truth about things
Philosophical Plumbing
Beyond Representation
Scenes from my Childhood
Metaphysics and Music
Philosophy and the Cult of Irrationalisation.

Subject Areas: Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism [HPCF5]