Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John AndersonThis 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. |
Contents
Rejection of rationalism and relativism | 18 |
Empiricism and pluralism | 33 |
Knowledge and mind | 50 |
Formal logic | 76 |
Space Time and the categories | 95 |
Causality religion positivism and linguistic | 110 |
Social theory ethics and aesthetics | 126 |
Other editions - View all
Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson A. J. Baker No preview available - 2009 |
Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson A. J. Baker,John Baker,Archibald James Baker No preview available - 1986 |
Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson A. J. Baker No preview available - 1986 |
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