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The inescapable self : an introduction to Western philosophy since Descartes / Timothy Chappell

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005Description: 335 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 029784735X (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 190 C467I
LOC classification:
  • BD21 .C53 2005
Summary: "Walking in the footsteps of Plato and Descartes, Timothy Chappell recognizes that 'the fortress of my certainty about my own existence becomes the prison of my uncertainty about the existence of a world beyond me'. Using this insight as a springboard, Chappell launches into an exploration of a series of intellectual dilemmas that are the very stuff of philosophy: how can we know things outside ourselves? What basis is there for altruistic behaviour? Can we bridge the gap between mind and world? Do we have free will?" --Book Jacket
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 190 C467I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 062019

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index

"Walking in the footsteps of Plato and Descartes, Timothy Chappell recognizes that 'the fortress of my certainty about my own existence becomes the prison of my uncertainty about the existence of a world beyond me'. Using this insight as a springboard, Chappell launches into an exploration of a series of intellectual dilemmas that are the very stuff of philosophy: how can we know things outside ourselves? What basis is there for altruistic behaviour? Can we bridge the gap between mind and world? Do we have free will?" --Book Jacket

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