Author: Gellner, Ernest
Title: The Devil in Modern Philosophy
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, ix,262 pp, Light pencilled underlining to pages 78-90 & 185-186.. Minor rubbing. VG. In a feded dustwrapper. ¶ Edited with a preface by I. C. Jarvie and Joseph Agassi. Contents: Philosophy in General: The Devil in Modern Philosophy; The Crisis in the Humanities & the Mainstream of Philosphy; Reflections on Philosphy, Especialy in America; On Being Wrong; Is Belief Really Necessary? On Ethics: Maxims; Ethics & Logic; Knowing How & Validity; Morality & 'je ne sais quoi' Concepts; Some Ancestors: French 18th-Century Materialism; Philosophy in Particular: Thought & Time, or the Reluctant Relativist; Poker Player; Ayer's Epistle to the Russians; Ayer on Moore & Russell; The Belief Machine; Psychologists & Others: Ther Ascent of Life; Man's Picture of his World; On Freud & Reich; A Genetic Psychologist's Confessions; Eysenck: Seeing Emperors Naked; On Chomsky.

Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, Psychology, , , , , ,