Man is the Measure

Reuben Abel

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781439118405
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

An intelligently truthful book that explores the uneven landscape of the human intellect. An accessible introduction to philosophy, this book narrows the gap between the general reader and intellectual inquiry. Its points are illustrated with concrete examples that should call the reader to a higher level of critical thinking and self-perception.

Index

Abel, Karl, 219

Abélard, 235

Abel’s Razor, 47

Absolute idealism, 7, 8, 167

Achilles, 192

Acquaintance, knowledge by, 18-19,22

Actions, 239-42

and belief, 79

and social science, 107-27

Acupuncture, 78

Adam and Eve, 15, 18, 71, 93, 171

Adams and Leverrier, 39

Adams family, 170

Adrianople, battle of, 120

Alice in Wonderland, 16, 67, 80, 228

Altamira, 264

Ambiguity, 220-21

Amniocentesis, 150

Analogy, 88

Analytic and synthetic propositions, 25, 42-49, 178, 217, 272

Animal magnetism, 85

Animals, 164, 229-31

Anscombe, G. E. M., 241

Anthropology, 123-27, 151-56, 180

Antimatter, 17n.

Antisthenes, 14

Antony, Marc, 180

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 26, 80, 153, 198, 265

Arabs, 180

Arendt, Hannah, 238

Aristotle, 2, 8, 11-12, 15, 16, 17n., 58, 65, 82, 85, 102, 142, 153, 156, 213, 221, 244, 249, 251, 252, 268

and logic, 50-55, 182

Arithmetic, 60-63

Armstrong, Louis, 20

Arnold, Matthew, 8, 251, 252, 256n.

Aron, Raymond, 174

Art, 1, 3, 22, 26, 31, 37, 71, 103, 249-64

Astrology, 23, 75,102, 126 283

Atomism, 17n.

Aubrey, John, 57

Auden, W. H., 255

Augustine, St., 79, 171, 199, 244

Austin, J. L., 21, 75, 219, 221,227

Authority, 26

Autokinetic phenomenon, 39

Aveyron, 214

Ayer, A. J., 23, 223

Babel, Tower of, 199

Bach, 170, 262

Bacon, Francis, xix, 12, 26, 82, 102, 166, 213

Bagehot, Walter, 89

Bain, Alexander, 79

Bakunin, 165

Bali, 249

Balzac, Honoreé de, 252

Barbara Celarent Darii, 51

Barzun, Jacques, 268

Baudelaire, 269

Bayeux tapestries, 37

Beard, Charles A., 170

Beardsley, Monroe, 256n.

Beaumont and Fletcher, 262

Becker, Carl, 166

Beerbohm, Max, 217

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 41, 269

Behavior and behaviorism, 46, 108-20, 157-59

Being, 14, 53-55, 72

Belief, 23, 78-80, 177, 237

and perception, 39-40

Benedict, Ruth, 154-55

Bentham, Jeremy, 221, 222

Bentley, Richard, 102

Berenson, Bernard, 266

Bergson, Henri, 6, 20, 22, 171, 208-209, 251, 266 Beria, 168

Bering Sea, 168

Berkeley, Bishop, xix, 31,131

Berlin, Isaiah, 108

Berlinski, David, 140

Berlioz, Hecotr, 254, 258,268

Berra, Yogi, 44

Berthelot, Pierre, 103

Birds, 149

Black, Max, 214

Blake, William, 260

Blanshard, Brand, 12

Block universe, 7

Boccaccio, 251

Bode’s Law, 58

Bohm, David, 105

Bolyai, Janos, 134-35

Boole, George, 52

Borges, Jorge Luis, 167

Bosch, Hieronymos, 251, 253

Bowles, Paul, 123-26

Boyle’s Law, 93

Bradley, F. H., 72

Brahe, Tycho, 97-98

Brainwashing, 80, 242

Brancusi, Constantin, 257

Braudel, Ferdinand, 165

Brentano, Franz, 80

Bridgman, P. W., 73, 105

Brillat-Savarin, 258n.

Brouwer, L. E. J., 60, 61, 209

Brownian motion, 179

Browning, Robert, 51, 167, 226, 257n.

Bruce, James, 37

Bruner, Jerome, 267

Buber, Martin, 19, 162

Buckle, H. T., 169

Buddha, 186

Buffon, Georges, 136

Burg, Moses, 205

Burgess, Anthony, 266

Burke, Kenneth, 269

Business cycle, 88-89

Busoni, Ferruccio, 262

Butler, Samuel, 68, 245-46

Byron, George Gordon, 91

Cabanis, 200

Caloric, 4

Calvinism, 152, 153

Camille, 192

Cancer, 180

Cantor, Georg, 61, 209

Capacity, see Disposition

Čapek, Milič, 103

Carlyle, Thomas, 170

Carnap, Rudolf, 21, 22, 32, 65, 113,204,2...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Contents
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Preface
• Introduction The Philosophic Enterprise
• I Metaphysics What in the World Is There
• 2 The Basis of Knowledge
• 3 Our Knowledge of the External World
• 4 The Task of Perception
• 5 When Do We Attain Certainty
• 6 Logic Mathematics and Metaphysics
• 7 Meaning and Naming How Language Bites on to the World
• 8 Truth and Belief
• 9 Science Facts and Hypotheses
• 10 Scientific Explanation
• 11 The Social Sciences
• 12 Space Time and Matter
• 13 Is There Purpose in Nature The Evidence of Evolution
• 14 “Human Nature” and Scientific Method in Anthropology Psychology and Psychoanalysis
• 15 The Study of History What Is the Past
• 16 Probability Rationality and Induction
• 17 The Person
• 18 Mind and Body
• 19 Minds Machines Meanings and Language
• 20 Intention Action and Free Will
• 21 Form in Art
• 22 Creativity
• 23 Man Is the Measure
• Index