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The Pursuit of Philosophy
Some Cambridge Perspectives

Alexis Papazoglou (Edited by), A Papazoglou (Author)

9781118295182, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 24 August 2012

192 pages
23 x 15.4 x 1 cm, 0.304 kg

Eleven Cambridge academics approach philosophy from various fields, to broaden its practical and theoretical applications.

  • Guides a tour through various academic departments—including history, political science, classics, law, and English—to ferret out the philosophy in their syllabi, and to show philosophy's symbiotic relationship with other fields
  • Provides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundred years after the "founding fathers" of analytic philosophy reigned at Cambridge
  • Offers useful new directions for the study and application of philosophy, and how other fields can influence them

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction: Philosophy, Its Pitfalls, Some Rescue Plans, and Their Complications Alexis Papazoglou 1

1 Philosophy, Logic, Science, History Tim Crane 19

2 Philosophy and Its Pitfalls Jane Heal 37

3 A Surfeit of Naturalism Tim Lewens 45

4 What Is Realistic Political Philosophy? David Runciman 57

5 Bedlam or Parnassus: The Verse Idea Simon Jarvis 69

6 Philosophy, Early Modern Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy Michael Edwards 81

7 Goals, Origins, Disciplines Raymond Geuss 95

8 Falling In and Out of Love with Philosophy John Forrester 111

9 Forms of Reflection, Imagination, and the Love of Wisdom Douglas Hedley 127

10 What Is Legal Philosophy? Matthew H. Kramer 139

11 The Cambridge Revolt Against Idealism: Was There Ever an Eden? Fraser Macbride 149

Index 161

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
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