Philosophy, History, and Myth Essays and Talks

by Loptson, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780761822912
• ISBN10: 0761822917
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-06
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Philosophy, 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, 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	ix
Reconciliations	1	(26)
The Relevance of Logic to Philosophy	27	(12)
Epiphenomenalism, Identity, and Externalism	39	(18)
Varieties of Common Sense: Reid and Some Twentieth-Century Comparisons	57	(18)
The Unity of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy	75	(16)
Bolingbroke and the Evolution of Scientific Philosophy	91	(16)
The First and Second Editions of Kant's Critique: Some Philosophical Differences	107	(8)
On Having to Choose Between Hume and Kant	115	(16)
Mill, Fukuyama, and Social Philosophy	131	(20)
Fukuyama, Hegel, and the End of History	151	(20)
Humanism and its Role in the Contemporary World	171	(10)
Philosophy and Myth	181	(12)
Historicity, Tradition, and Invention in Antique Stories	193	(14)
Endnotes	207	(10)
Literature Cited	217	(6)
Index	223