What Philosophy Is / Edition 1

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Overview

What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today? How does philosophy relate to science, to politics, to literature? What methods does the modern philosopher use, and how does philosophy progress? Does philosophy differ from place to place? What can philosophy do for us? And what can it not do? This book, with contributions from such exciting and influential contemporary philosophers as Simon Blackburn, Michael Friedman, Simon Critchley and Manuel DeLanda, offers us a fascinating picture of the character and methods of philosophy; its possibilities and its limitations. And of course, it is itself a piece of philosophy in action, not merely offering us answers but also prompting us to ask further questions and to philosophise for ourselves.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780826472427
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Publication date: 3/10/2004
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 346
  • Product dimensions: 5.06 (w) x 7.81 (h) x 0.72 (d)

Meet the Author


Havi Carel is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England, UK.

David Gamez is at the University of Essex, UK where he is working on a project to build a conscious robot. He has a PhD in Continental Philosophy and previous publications include What Philosophy Is (co-edited with Havi Carel, Continuum, 2003).

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Table of Contents

Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the volume 1
I Political philosophy 7
Philosophy as politics : some guesses as to the future of political philosophy 10
Philosophy as logo : the thought of branding and the branding of thought 23
II Philosophy and science 37
Philosophy as biology : evolutionary explanations in philosophy 40
Philosophy as intensive science 51
Philosophy as dynamic reason : the idea of a scientific philosophy 73
III Philosophizing from different places 99
Philosophy as if place mattered : the situation of African philosophy 103
Philosophy as a problem in Latin America 116
IV Philosophical method 129
Philosophy as bricolage 132
Philosophy as judgement 141
Philosophy as nomadism 155
Philosophy as an 'as' 168
V Philosophy and literature 181
Philosophy as poetry : the intricate evasions of As 185
Philosophy as sideshadowing : the philosophical, the literary, and the fantastic 200
VI Therapeutic philosophy 211
Philosophy as therapy 213
Philosophy as listening : the lessons of psychoanalysis 225
VII Professional philosophy 239
Philosophy as profession 241
Philosophy as deep and shallow wisdom 255
Epilogue : the limits of philosophy? 271
Philosophy as saying the unsayable 274
Glossary 292
Notes 301
Index 323
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