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Philosophical dialogues : Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein

Title
Philosophical dialogues : Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein / edited by Timothy Smiley.
Publication
Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, ©1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Smiley, T. J.
  • Sedley, D. N. (David N).
  • Dancy, Jonathan.
  • Heal, Jane.
  • British Academy.
Description
x, 83 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Many of the greatest philosophers have used the form of the dialogue to expound their arguments, yet the vehicle itself has been inadequately studied. The three essays in this volume examine the reasons why particular philosophers have chosen to use the dialogue as a tool and the interaction between the philosophical content and the literary form." "David Sedley and Jonathan Dancy discuss two works by acknowledged masters of the dialogue, Plato's Phaedo and Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. A study of Wittgenstein in this context may seem more surprising, but Jane Heal intriguingly explores his exchanges with an unnamed interlocutor in the Investigations." "These Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy, by three of today's most talented young philosophers, demonstrate the value of considering the dialogue form as more than just a literary device."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
  • Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 85
  • Dawes Hicks lectures on philosophy
Uniform Title
  • Proceedings of the British Academy ; 85.
  • Dawes Hicks lecture on philosophy
Subject
  • Plato
  • Hume, David, 1711-1776
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
  • Plato > Criticism and interpretation
  • Dialogues concerning natural religion (Hume, David)
  • Phaedo (Plato)
  • Dialogue analysis
  • Literary form
  • Dialectic
  • dialectic
  • Dialogen
  • Dialogue
Note
  • Comprises one lecture each by David Sedley, Jonathan Dancy and Jane Heal.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references
Credits (note)
  • Comprises one lecture each by David Sedley, Jonathan Dancy and Jane Heal.
Contents
The Dramatis Personae of Plato's "Phaedo" / D. Sedley -- 'For Here the Author is Annihilated': Reflections on Philosophical Aspects of the Use of the Dialogue Form in Hume's "Dialogues Concerning the Natural Religion" / J. Dancy -- Wittgenstein and Dialogue / J. Heal
ISBN
  • 0197261531
  • 9780197261538
OCLC
  • ocm33047098
  • 33047098
  • SCSB-1277575
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library