Description
Book SynopsisPhilosophy, History, and Myth is a collection of essays that were originally delivered as academic lectures. The essays are relatively informal explorations of topics in the history of philosophy (Reid and common sense; the unity of eighteenth-century philosophy; Bolingbroke; the two editions of Kant''s first Critique), logic and its philosophical relevance, materialism in the philosophy of mind, the Hegelian end of history, the role of humanism in the contemporary world, and relations between philosophy and myth, broadly and also more specifically with reference to themes in early Greek literature. The collection is unified and informed by the philosophical commitments of the author to a comprehensive naturalist and humanist perspective.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Reconciliations Chapter 4 The Relevance of Logic to Philosophy Chapter 5 Epiphenomenalism, Identity, and Externalism Chapter 6 Varieties of Common Sense: Reid and Some Twentieth-Century Comparisons Chapter 7 The Unity of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Chapter 8 Bolingbroke and the Evolution of Scientific Philosophy Chapter 9 The First and Second Editions of Kant's Critique: Some Philosophical Differences Chapter 10 On Having to Choose Between Hume and Kant Chapter 11 Mill, Fukuyama, and Social Philosophy Chapter 12 Fukuyama, Hegel, and the End of History Chapter 13 Humanism and its Role in the Contemporary World Chapter 14 Philosophy and Myth Chapter 15 Historicity, Tradition, and Invention in Antique Stories Chapter 16 Endnotes Chapter 17 Literature Cited Chapter 18 Index
