Language, magic and religion
Auteur :
Wells, G.A.
Éditeur :
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
ISBN :
9780812692389
Date de publication :
1 oct. 1993
Dimensions :
23,0 cm
Poids :
567 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.