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[...]... history of philosophy is both a provincial act and an unnecessary impoverishment of its rich natural resources xxxi PHILOSOPHY Then and Now © 2001 All Rights Reserved Zaine Ridling, Ph.D ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: {SPACER PAGE} ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Part I History of Western Philosophy 2 Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A... 898 Contemporary Philosophy 899 Continental Philosophy 900 Analytic Philosophy 904 Commonsense Philosophy, Logical Positivism, and Naturalized Epistemology 905 Perception and Knowledge 907 Phenomenalism 912 xix Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology 916 Philosophy of Mind... or the xxvii Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought British philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill, have been obsessed by problems of political arrangement and social living, so that whatever else they have done in philosophy has been stimulated by a desire to understand and, ultimately, to change the social and political behavior of men And still others – such... versus Significant Propositions 830 Logical versus Factual Propositions 831 Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description 833 Description versus Justification 836 Knowledge and Certainty 838 xviii Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Origins of Knowledge 841 Innate versus Learned 842 Rationalism versus Empiricism...Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Modern Schools 318 Analytic and Linguistic Philosophy 318 General Viewpoint of Analytic Philosophy 321 Nature, Role, and Method of Analysis 321 Status of Philosophy in the Empiricist Tradition 321 Conceptual, Linguistic, and Scientific Analysis 323 Therapeutic... extreme complexity and many-sidedness It is difficult to determine whether any common element can be found within this diversity and whether any core meaning can be discovered for philosophy that could serve as a universal and all-inclusive definition But a xxvi Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought first attempt in this direction might be to define philosophy either... Environmental Ethics 1086 War and Peace 1087 Abortion, Euthanasia, and the Value of Human Life 1088 Bioethics 1089 Bibliography 1093 xxii Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Acknowledgments I wish to express sincere appreciation to Francis Christie, John Farthing, and Jay McDaniel for their assistance and lasting influence In addition,... my wife who has supported both me and my work for so many years xxiii Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Preface The concepts that lie at the heart of philosophy antedate historical record by thousands of years In one form or another, the concept of immortality probably extends back at least to the Neanderthals some tens of thousands of years ago They seem to have... Materialism 438 Reductionism, Consciousness, and Brain 438 Logic, Intentionality, and Psychical Research 440 xii Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Phenomenology 442 Characteristics of Phenomenology 442 Essential Features and Variations 443 Contrasts with Related Movements 444 Origin and Development of Husserl’s Phenomenology... 486 The Status of the Formal and A Priori 487 Developments in Linguistic Analysis and Their Offshoots 489 Current Criticisms and Controversies 492 xiii Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought Pragmatism 494 Major Theses of Philosophic Pragmatism 495 History of Pragmatism 498 Antecedents in Modern Philosophy 498 The Metaphysical . Propositions 831 Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description 833 Description versus Justification 836 Knowledge and Certainty 838 Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back. Philosophy Then and Now: A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Thought x Modern Schools 318 Analytic and Linguistic Philosophy 318 General Viewpoint of Analytic Philosophy 321 Nature, Role, and. PHILOSOPHY Then and Now A Look Back at 26 Centuries of Ideas That Have Shaped Our Thinking by Zaine Ridling, Ph.D. Access Foundation 2001 Ridling, Philosophy Then and Now: