Understanding Phenomenology

Name: Understanding Phenomenology
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ISBN: 9781844650552

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Edition: 2006

Authors: David R. Cerbone

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Robert Meyers begins by distinguishing between the epistemological and psychological/causal versions of empiricism, showing that it is the former that is of primary interest to philosophers. Chapters on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume provide clear introductions to the main protagonists in the British empiricist tradition, avoiding excessive details about disputes surrounding particular philosophers. Meyers then examines more contemporary material, including the ideas of Sellars; foundations and coherence theories; the rejection of the a priori by Mill, Peirce, and Quine; scepticism; and the status of religious belief within empiricism, paying particular attention to criticisms of empiricism,…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 5/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

David R Cerbone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University.He is the author of "Understanding Phenomenology", as well as numerous articles on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the analytic and Continental traditions in twentieth century philosophy.



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction: Opening exercises



Husserl and the project of pure phenomenology



Heidegger and the existential turn



Sartre and subjectivity



Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenology of embodiment



Problems and prospects: phenomenology and its critics


Questions for discussion and revision


Further reading


References


Index