Research Catalog

Title

Freedom, nature, and world / Peter Loptson.

Author

Loptson, Peter.

Publication

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2007.

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Description

vii, 336 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"This volume is a collection of essays chiefly in philosophy, with a few others on philosophical topics in classics. The book specially focuses on issues posed by a broadly naturalistic view of the world, which the author defends while also exploring some of the challenges it confronts."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Collection Philosophica, 1480-4670

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Collection Philosophica

Subject

• Philosophy
• Naturalism
• Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Metaphysics
• Philosophie
• Naturalisme
• Poésie épique grecque > Histoire et critique
• Métaphysique

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-330) and index.

Contents

The mirror's reflections and the clockwork behind our smiles : human nature, agency, spirit, and mechanism -- What is human nature? -- Metaphysics and its critics -- Metaphysics as first science -- The concept of naturalism : some complications -- Naturalism and the normative -- Science and the history of analytic philosophy -- Contingency in early modern philosophy -- Charles W. Hendel and Hume : a review and reconsideration -- The singularity of the scientific revolution : Fred Wilson's defence of the early modern achievement in philosophy and the sciences -- Enlightenment, the philosophers, and race : some reconsiderations -- Kant, Christianity, and a kingdom of ends -- Philosophical reflections on Homer -- Tradition, history, and oral memory in early Greek epic -- The other Odysseus, the false Troy, and oral tradition.

ISBN

• 9780776606620
• 077660662X

OCLC

180689412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library