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 fieldsProvides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundredyears after the “founding fathers” of analytic philosophy reigned at CambridgeOffers useful new directions for the study and application of philosophy, andhow other fields can influence them INDICE: Notes on Contributors1 Introduction: Philosophy, Its Pitfalls, Some Rescue Plans, and Their Complications (ALEXIS PAPAZOGLOU)2 Philosophy, Logic, Science, History (TIM CRANE) 3 Philosophy and Its Pitfalls (JANE HEAL)4 A Surfeit of Naturalism (TIM LEWENS)5 What Is Realistic Political Philosophy? (DAVID RUNCIMAN) 6 Bedlam or Parnassus: The Verse Idea (SIMON JARVIS)7 Philosophy,Early Modern Intellectual History, and History of Philosophy (MICHAEL EDWARDS)8 Goals, Origins, Disciplines (RAYMOND GEUSS) 9 Falling In and Out of Love with Philosophy (JOHN FORRESTER) 10 Forms of Reflection, Imagination, and the Love of Wisdom (DOUGLAS HEDLEY) 11 What Is Legal Philosophy? (MATTHEW H. KRAMER)12 The Cambridge Revolt Against Idealism: Was There Ever an Eden? (FRASER MACBRIDE)Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-29518-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha Publicación: 31/08/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés