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Section Guide 1. Prolegomena 2. Biographical Sketch 3. Epistemology 4. Textbook Ontology 1. PROLEGOMENA While both philosophers and historians almost always love truth and the search for truth, and both often carry out extensive research, there can be noticeable differences when historians write about the history of philosophy and when philosophers write about it. Philosophers often look at the past with categories and interests taken from the present or at the least from the recent past, but many historians, especially those who love research for its own sake, will try to look at the past from a perspective either from that period or from even earlier. Both camps look for roots, but view them with different lenses and presupposi tions. This prolegomena has been added to prepare some philosophers for what will hopefully only be the mildest of shocks, for seeing the history of philosophy in a way which does not treat what is recent or latest as best, but which loves the context of ideas for its own sake, a context which can be very foreign to contemporary likes and dislikes. To be sure, we historians can deceive ourselves as easily as philosophers, but we tend to do so about different things.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Philosophy of science

• Full title: Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895-1930
• Subtitle: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science
• Author: J. T. Blackmore, R. Itagaki, S. Tanaka
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9780792371229
• ISBN: 0792371224
• ID: 05250885
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 1480 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2001

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