What's in a Name? Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
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Wells identifies influential mistakes about language embedded in the empiricist philosophical tradition of Locke, Russell and Ayer. He shows how these errors stimulated a religious backlash, in which faith became coupled with commonsense realism. He also covers behaviourism and magical thinking.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780812692389 |
Publisher: | Open Court |
Imprint: | Open Court Publishing Company |
Pub date: | 01 Nov 1993 |
DEWEY: | 401 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 237 |
Weight: | 567g |
Height: | 230mm |
Width: | 165mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |