The Plato Cult: and Other Philosophical Follies

by David Stove

Overview

This is a book of philosophy, written by a philosopher and intended for anyone who knows enough philosophy to have been seriously injured, antagonised, mystified or intoxicated by it. Stove is passionately polemical, a philosophical counterpart to Tom Wolfe. Setting out to deflate a few philosophical reputations, he lambastes both the dead (Plato, Hegel, Kant, Foucault) and the living (Popper, Nozick, Feyerabend, Goodman). Yet he says things that need to be said, and that others often lack the courage to say.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631177098
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/26/1991
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.41(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

David Charles Stove, was an Australian philosopher. His work in philosophy of science included criticisms of David Hume's Inductive scepticism, as well as what he regarded as the irrationalism of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend.

Table of Contents

Cole Porter and Karl Popper, or the Jazz Age in the philosphy of science; philosophy and lunacy, or Nelson Goodman and the omnipotence of words; "always apologize, always explain - Robert Nozick's war wounds; "I only am escaped alone to tell thee" - epistemology and the Ishmael effect; idealism - a Victorian horror story; what is wrong with our thoughts? - a neo-positivist credo.