Plato, Etc. by Roy Bhaskar
In his most accessible book to date, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the 'problems of philosophy'. Plato Etc. reviews all the main areas of the subject: the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science; the philosophy of logic and language; the philosophies of space, time and causality; the philosophy of the social and life sciences and of dialectic; ethics, politics and aesthetics; and the history and sociology of philosophy. Among the issues discussed are the problems of induction and universals, the question of relativism, Heidegger's 'scandal of philosophy' (the search for a proof of the reality of the external world), the nature of moral truth, and the conundrum of free will and determinism. The last two chapters consist of a synoptic account of the development of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to poststructuralism. Plato Etc. seeks to revindicate the idea of the philosophical project, and to demonstrate that Bhaskar's 'dialectical critical realism' has the categorial power to remedy the problem fields of philosophy. The book serves both as an introduction to philosophy and as an invaluable resource for the scholar.
A thinker of enormous power and originality.. and one of the very few post-war philosophers whose work has had [and will continue to have] a lasting and really worldwide impact. -- Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex
Roy Bhaskar is Research Fellow in Philosophy at Linacre College, Oxford and The City University, London. Among his highly acclaimed and increasingly influential publications are Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Reclaiming Reality and Dialectic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860916499 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860916499 |
| Title | Plato, Etc. |
| Author | Roy Bhaskar |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 1994-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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