Rationis Defensor
Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
Editors: Maclaurin, James (Ed.)
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- About this book
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Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and which has twice been judged as the strongest research department across all disciplines in governmental research assessments. Colin is the immediate past President of the Australasian Association for Philosophy (New Zealand Division). He is the author of Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism (Springer, 2001) and the editor, with Vladimir Svoboda and Bjorn Jespersen, of Pavel Tichy’s Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy (University of Otago Press, 2005) and, with John Worrall, of Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (Springer, 2006). This volume celebrates the dedication to rational enquiry and the philosophical style of Colin Cheyne. It also celebrates the distinctive brand of naturalistic philosophy for which Otago has become known. Contributors to the volume include a wide variety of philosophers, all with a personal connection to Colin, and all of whom are, in their own way, defenders of rationality.
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From the reviews:
“This collection of recent philosophical papers … provides a nice selection of the current debates and crucial issues at play in philosophy. … To the potential reader this collection contains a solid sampling of modern philosophy that showcases a strong defence of rationality and the progress made in the philosophical method. … If you are interested in reading an example of what philosophers have been up to lately then pick up a copy of Rationis Defensor. You will not be disappointed.” (Charles Gibson, Scoop Review of Books, February, 2013)
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Getting Over Gettier
Pages 3-10
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Justified Believing: Avoiding the Paradox
Pages 11-21
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Literature and Truthfulness
Pages 23-31
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The Buck-Passing Stops Here
Pages 33-40
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Universal Darwinism: Its Scope and Limits
Pages 43-55
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Rationis Defensor
- Book Subtitle
- Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
- Editors
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- James Maclaurin
- Series Title
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
- Series Volume
- 28
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-3983-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-3983-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3982-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-8082-7
- Series ISSN
- 0929-6425
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 300
- Topics
