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Philosophy and Life: Essays on John Wisdom

Philosophy and Life: Essays on John Wisdom

Dilman, Ilham

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Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy, Book 17

Philosophy

ISBN10: 9400961863
ISBN13: 9789400961869
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 12 2011
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
JOHN WISDOM AND THE BREADTH OF PHILOSOPHY hham Dhman 1. THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME The essays following the two pieces by John Wisdom have all been written by philosophers who are former students or friends of Wisdom or who have a high regard for his work. Their contributions were all written with him in mind and to be discussed at a conference honouring his work. This conference was held in August 1983 at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which Wisdom has been a fellow since 1935. Wisdom is a master of discursive reasoning and one of his distinctive contributions in philosophy has been to examine its various forms and their interconnections, particularly the form it takes in philosophical inquiry and the way it advances our understanding there. His concern to bring out the links between all that is abstract in such reasoning and the concrete and particular is well known and represented in many of the essays in this volume. But Wisdom has also a deep appreciation of the kind of understanding that is advanced non-discursively. As he puts it in the first piece in this volume: However skilled a good critic 'I am sure that much of what makes Hamlet Hamlet will run between his fingers'. He has himself advanced our understanding on many questions in philosophy in this way, not simply by what he has said, but also by what he has suggested 'between the lines'.

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