1st Edition

A Metaphysics for the Future

By Robert Allinson Copyright 2001
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2001. This work is intended to serve not only as an expression of a new idea of a philosophy, but as an "apologia" for philosophy as a legitimate and independent discipline in its own right. It argues that in the 20th century, truth has not been abandoned, but merely modified. The text proposes a return to truth and suggests that it is only after apprehending the... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Nature of Metaphysics; 1: What is Metaphysics?; 2: A Typology of Metaphysics; 3: Pedagogical Approaches to the Study of Metaphysics; 4: Metaphysical Principles and Metaphysical Insight; 2: The Nature of Knowledge; 5: The Modes of Knowledge the Case of the Idiot Savant and How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?; 6: Descartes’ Legacy and Exorcising the Ghosts of the Cartesian and the Hermeneutic Circles; 7: Husserl’s Red Herrings; 8: The Bogeyword, ‘Intuition’; 9: The Laws of the Mind and the Laws of the Universe; 10: The Distinction Between Empirical Psychology and Phenomenological Epistemology; 11: The Logic in Phenomenology; 12: The Forgotten Fourth

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Robert Allinson