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Index
Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part one Philosophy in general
Chapter 1 The devil in modern philosophy
Chapter 2 The crisis in the humanities and the mainstream of philosophy
The state of England
The permanent revolution
The threatening abyss
If
The unreality of time
The implausible Bluebird
A secondary industry
As it is written
Notes
Chapter 3 Reflections on philosophy, especially in America
Chapter 4 On being wrong
Chapter 5 Is belief really necessary?
Part two On ethics
Chapter 6 Maxims
Chapter 7 Ethics and logic
Chapter 8 Knowing how and validity
Chapter 9 Morality and ‘je ne sais quoi’ concepts
Part three Some ancestors
Chapter 10 French eighteenth-century materialism
Major themes of the Enlightenment
Modern themes not present in Enlightenment thought
The ideology and its impact
The system of nature
The nature of the universe
The nature of man
The foundations of morality
‘The System of Nature’, Volume II
Conclusion
Part four Philosophy in particular
Chapter 11 Thought and time, or the reluctant relativist
Chapter 12 Poker player
Note
Chapter 13 Ayer’s epistle to the Russians
Chapter 14 Ayer on Moore and Russell
Chapter 15 The belief machine
Part five Psychologists and others
Chapter 16 The ascent of life
Chapter 17 Man’s picture of his world
Chapter 18 On Freud and Reich
Chapter 19 A genetic psychologist’s confessions
Chapter 20 Eysenck: seeing emperors naked
Chapter 21 On Chomsky
Sources
Bibliography of Ernest Gellner
Index of names
Index of subjects
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