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Philosophy and Life

Essays on John Wisdom

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. İlham Dilman

    1. University College of Swansea, UK

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Part of the book series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series (NIPS, volume 17)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction John Wisdom and the Breadth of Philosophy

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 1-25

  3. What Is There in Horse Racing? (1954)

    • John Wisdom
    Pages 27-34

  4. Mr Köllerström’s Dream: Enlightenment and Happiness — A Few Remarks (1973)

    • John Wisdom
    Pages 35-48

  5. Wonders

    • Karl Britton
    Pages 49-60

  6. Saints and Supererogation

    • A. I. Melden
    Pages 61-81

  7. Wisdom on Aesthetics: Superstructure and Substructure

    • Graham McFee
    Pages 83-121

  8. The Art of Saying What Can be Imagined

    • Meirlys Lewis
    Pages 123-143

  9. Our Knowledge of Other People

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 145-178

  10. Psycho-Analysis and Philosophy

    • Mike Brearley
    Pages 179-199

  11. Discipline and Discipleship

    • Renford Bambrough
    Pages 201-217

  12. The Scope of Reason: Wisdom, Kuhn and James

    • R. W. Newell
    Pages 219-240

  13. Generality and the Importance of the Particular Case

    • Jamil Nammour
    Pages 241-270

  14. Universals: Logic and Metaphor

    • Peter Long
    Pages 271-289

  15. From Epistemology to Romance via Wisdom

    • Roger A. Shiner
    Pages 291-315

  16. Philosophy and Scepticism

    • ilham Dilman
    Pages 317-345
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About this book

JOHN WISDOM AND THE BREADTH OF PHILOSOPHY hham Dhman 1. THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME The essays following the two pieces by John Wisdom have all been written by philosophers who are former students or friends of Wisdom or who have a high regard for his work. Their contributions were all written with him in mind and to be discussed at a conference honouring his work. This conference was held in August 1983 at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which Wisdom has been a fellow since 1935. Wisdom is a master of discursive reasoning and one of his distinctive contributions in philosophy has been to examine its various forms and their interconnections, particularly the form it takes in philosophical inquiry and the way it advances our understanding there. His concern to bring out the links between all that is abstract in such reasoning and the concrete and particular is well known and represented in many of the essays in this volume. But Wisdom has also a deep appreciation of the kind of understanding that is advanced non-discursively. As he puts it in the first piece in this volume: However skilled a good critic 'I am sure that much of what makes "Hamlet" "Hamlet" will run between his fingers'. He has himself advanced our understanding on many questions in philosophy in this way, not simply by what he has said, but also by what he has suggested 'between the lines'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College of Swansea, UK

    İlham Dilman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy and Life

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on John Wisdom

  • Editors: İlham Dilman

  • Series Title: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6184-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2996-8Published: 31 August 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6186-9Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6184-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4530

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 346

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Classical Philosophy, Philosophy, general

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