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Ten philosophical mistakes: basic errors in modern thought-how..

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This book is certainly in the populist vein, being written with great clarity which only occasionally slips into tedium. his is not for the newcomer to philosophy. If you get to his first discussion of Hume and Kant and wonder “who are Hume and Kant?” it’s already too late. Nor does Adler re-write these 10 philosophical mistakes in the sense of correcting them, replacing them, and adding more ideas. That would have been far too ambitious.

What he does do, in superlative fashion, is to zero in on a few fundamental errors. Astonishingly, these are not small errors, and he does not pull any punches. He takes on the giants of the field and some truly fundamental building blocks. These particular 10 instances, he feels, have sent modern philosophy down a number of blind alleys. It would be hard to disagree with him (though some have). This seems a good time to call attention to the many excellent reviews of Adler’s book on this Amazon site. Read them, and learn. This is not to say that I agree with all of the reviewers’ criticisms of Adler's approach and conclusions, see below.

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100 ADL t

Publisher

New York : The Macmillan Company., 1985

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xx,200p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-02-500330-5

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100

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PHILOSOPHY

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