What makes a philosopher great? (Record no. 560843)
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| fixed length control field | 01941 a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781138936164 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | IIT Kanpur |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 109.2 |
| Item number | W556 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | What makes a philosopher great? |
| Remainder of title | thirteen arguments for twelve philosophers |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | edited by Stephen Hetherington |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Routledge |
| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Place of publication | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 272p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead, rewardingly close studies of philosophical greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume, blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case studies by accomplished scholars, each chapter trying to understand and convey a particular philosopher’s greatness:<br/><br/>Lloyd P. Gerson on Plato<br/><br/>Karyn Lai on Zhuangzi<br/><br/>David Bronstein on Aristotle<br/><br/>Jonardon Ganeri on Buddhaghosa<br/><br/>Jeffrey Hause on Aquinas<br/><br/>Gary Hatfield on Descartes<br/><br/>Karen Detlefsen on du Châtelet<br/><br/>Don Garrett on Hume<br/><br/>Allen Wood on Kant (as a moral philosopher)<br/><br/>Nicholas F. Stang on Kant (as a metaphysician)<br/><br/>Ken Gemes on Nietzsche<br/><br/>Cheryl Misak on Peirce<br/><br/>David Macarthur on Wittgenstein<br/><br/>This also serves a larger philosophical purpose. Might we gain increased clarity about what philosophy is in the first place? After all, in practice we individuate philosophy partly through its greatest practitioners’ greatest contributions.<br/><br/>The book does not discuss every philosopher who has been regarded as great. The point is not to offer a definitive list of The Great Philosophers, but, rather, to learn something about what great philosophy is and might be, from illuminated examples of past greatness. |
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| Topical Term | Philosophers |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Philosophy |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hetherington, Stephen [ed.] |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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| General Stacks | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | 11/11/2019 | 60 | 2169.12 | 109.2 W556 | A184928 | 2711.40 | Books |