A journey through philosophy in 101 anecdotes

by Rescher, Nicholas

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Full title :A journey through philosophy in 101 anecdotes / Nicholas Rescher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Pittsburgh Press
Place of Publication:Pittsburgh, Pa
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 recurso en línea (xii, 289 páginas)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0822980444, 9780822980445
oclc:ocn995330568
Dewey Decimal:190

Antiquity to 500 AD. The Tower of Babel ; Aesop's donkey ; Xenophanes's animal theologians ; Pythagoras's numbers ; Heraclitus's river ; Anaximander's earth ; Zeno's races ; The atomists' nature ; The atomists' worlds ; Socrates's disappointment ; Eubulides's riddle and Epimendes's lie ; Plato's Republic ; Plato's ring of Gyges ; Plato's demiurge ; Plato's knowledge ; Aristotle's sea battle ; Aristotle's precept on precision ; Aristotle's golden mean ; Pilate's truth ; Archimedes's lever ; The ship of Theseus ; Tertullian's absurdity ; St. Augustine's time -- The Middle Ages, 500-1500. Avicenna's plank ; Buridan's ass ; Omar Khayyám's finger ; King Alfonso's boast ; Scholasticism's omnipotence perplex ; Aquinas's proofs ; Averroes's truth ; Machiavelli's Prince -- Early modernity, 1500-1800. The Valladolid debate ; More's Utopia ; Dr. Faustus's bargain ; Hobbes's Leviathan ; Descartes's deceiver ; Descartes's ergo ; Descartes's firm foundation ; Calderon's dream ; Pascal's wager ; Spinoza's worm and Leibniz's leap ; Huygens's planetarians ; Locke's locked room ; Leibniz's textual limit ; Leibniz's windmill ; Leibniz's mythic goddess ; Aldrich's box paradoxes ; Mandeville's bees ; …

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Anecdotes History Philosophers Philosophers -- Anecdotes Philosophes -- Anecdotes Philosophie -- Anecdotes Philosophie -- Anecdotes. -- Histoire Philosophy Philosophy -- Anecdotes Philosophy -- Anecdotes. -- History