Australian Realism
The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson
A. J. Baker(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 3. April 1986
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-521-32051-1 (ISBN)
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Description
This book outlines the realist and pluralist philosophy of John Anderson, Australia's most original thinker, whose articles and teaching at Sydney University have deeply influenced Australian intellectual life. Several main themes run though his work, but Anderson never gave an overall account of his views. This is remedied here: in exhibiting the range of Anderson's thought, from logic, epistemology and theory of mind, to language and social theory, Baker's work sketches realism as a systematic philosophical position and shows something of the history of ideas in Australia. This book will be of particular interest to historians of modern philosophy and those studying realism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-32051-1 (9780521320511)
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Content
Introduction; Preface; 1. Realism; 2. rejection of rationalism and relativism; 3. Empiricism and pluralism; 4. Knowledge and mind; 5. Universals and particulars; 6. Formal logic; 7. Space, time and the categories; 8. Causality; religion; positivism and linguistic philosophy; 9. Social theory, ethics and aesthetics; Further reading; Index.