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What Philosophy Can Do

✍ Scribed by John Wilson (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1986
Tongue
English
Leaves
167
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Mistakes about Conceptual Analysis....Pages 14-40
Concepts and Contestability....Pages 41-59
Conceptual Necessity....Pages 60-80
Two Examples....Pages 81-101
Reactions to Philosophy....Pages 102-131
Reactions to Reason....Pages 132-150
A Practical Postscript....Pages 151-153
Back Matter....Pages 154-159

✦ Subjects

Philosophy, general

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