Acht filosofische miniaturen

by Herman Philipse

Dit hoorcollege is een wandeling met zevenmijlslaarzen door de geschiedenis van de wijsbegeerte en is bedoeld voor geïnteresseerden zonder veel wijsgerige achtergrondkennis. In dit college is ervoor gekozen uit te gaan van het werk van acht individuele filosofen. Kernpunten uit hun denken worden telkens één uur geschetst. Het doel van deze lezing is bij het publiek liefde op te wekken voor de immense ideeënrijkdom van de westerse wijsgerige traditie.
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Genres: Philosophy, Audiobook, Nonfiction

Audio CD

First published December 1, 2005

About the author

Herman Philipse (born 13 May 1951) is a professor of philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. From 1986 until 2003, he taught at Leiden University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1983.

Philipse has written many philosophical works in Dutch, including books on Husserl's early philosophy of logic, the role of certainty in Descartes' moral theory, and a widely read Atheist Manifesto (Atheistisch manifest & De onredelijkheid van religie (2004), untranslated; Eng: Atheist Manifesto and the unreasonableness of religion). In English, he has written over a dozen articles in philosophical journals, as well as a detailed assessment of Heidegger, Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical Interpretation. He has also written many commentaries for Dutch newspapers (most frequently as a regular contributor to the NRC Handelsblad) and current events television programs, defending atheism and advocating cultural assimilation for non-European immigrants in the Netherlands.

In his philosophical work, Philipse defends a non-reductionist naturalism, akin to that of Gilbert Ryle, Peter Strawson, and P.M.S. Hacker. While highly critical of the transcendental idealist tradition of Kant and Husserl for its allegedly incoherent notion of conceptual schemes, Philipse argues that scientistic philosophies that attempt to reduce consciousness to purely physical descriptions (such as those of Quine and Churchland) fall victim to a similar inconsistency: their theories logically depend on the concepts of ordinary human life they would abolish. More generally, Philipse firmly defends the values of the Enlightenment: support for the natural sciences and political liberalism.

Philipse's vigorous public atheism has, unsurprisingly, brought him into conflict with Islamists in the Netherlands. His 1995 Atheist Manifesto was republished in an expanded edition in 2004 with a foreword by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who partly credits the book for her shift from Islam to atheism.

Reviews

[Cindy]

Amai, absoluut niet het makkelijkste luisterboek ook al was het wel heel interessant, maar ik kan amper navertellen wat ik gehoord heb. Een introductie dus en misschien dan maar eens kiezen welke filosoof ik wil lezen. Maar voor nu is het vooral proberen te volgen met wat oudste zoon over zijn studie wijsbegeerte vertelt.

[Kay-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Soms wel erg ingewikkeld, in ieder geval uitdagend!