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What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like “human nature”-a term that has played its role in rhetoric, but that does not appear to have a definite, agreed-upon meaning? Indeed we can learn a great deal about some of the most influential modern philosophers, from the Enlightenment to Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V.O. Quine, by examining what they have to say about common sense, whilst the anthropologist Clifford Geertz observed that common sense “has become a central category, almost the central category, in a wide range of modern philosophical systems.”
This book investigates the nature of common sense through a selection of key writings on epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, meta-ethics and the philosophy of economics and political philosophy. The authors included are representative of the Scottish School, such as David Hume, the Ordinary Language School, and members of the Analytic tradition, including Karl Popper, but they also incorporate thinkers like John Dewey from the American pragmatist tradition, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, recent popular writers on economics, and even pamphleteers, from Thomas Paine to contemporary engaged journalists.
This is the first reader to provide such a comprehensive overview of the central writings on common sense. It features review questions and further reading lists at the end of each section.
acknowledgements
Preface: What This Reader Is (Not) About
General Introduction: Paradoxes of Plain Thinking
Part One: Anti-Skeptical
Introduction
i) An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764)
Thomas Reid
ii) A Defense of Common Sense (1925)
G.E. Moore
iii) From On Certainty (1951)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
iv) The Plain Truth about Common Sense (1995)
Mark Kingwell
v) Philosophy and Ordinary Experience (1999)
Stanley Rosen
Part Two: Common Sense and Science
Introduction
i) Common Sense and Science (1948)
John Dewey
ii) The Scope and Language of Science (1955)
W.V.O. Quine
iii) Two Faces of Common Sense (1973)
Karl R. Popper
iv) Why Scientists Shouldn't Be Surprised by the Popularity of Intelligent Design (2006)
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Part Three: Common Sense and Religion
Introduction
i) A Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God (1705)
Samuel Clarke
ii) Good Sense without God (1772)
Baron d'Holbach
iii)From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Completed 1776)
David Hume
iv) Is Belief in God Properly Basic? (1981)
Alvin Plantinga
Part Four: Common Sense and Morality
Introduction
i)The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Adam Smith
ii)Methods of Ethics (1874)
Henry Sidgwick
iii)Ethics and Common Sense (1986)
Marcus G. Singer
iv)Common-Sense Morality and Utilitarianism (1992)
J. Moreh
Part Five: Common Sense and Economics
Introduction
i)From Principles of Political Economy (1848)
John Stuart Mill
ii) Corporate Social Responsibility and Income Inequality (2005, 2006)
Gary Becker and Richard A. Posner
iii) Common Sense and the Depoliticization of the Economic (2008)
Jacinda Swanson
iv) Common-Sense Neoliberalism (2013)
Stuart Hall and Alan O'Shea
Part Six: Nothing More Political
Introduction
i)From Common Sense (January, 1776)
Thomas Paine
ii)From Plain Truth (March, 1776)
Lt. Col. James Chalmers
iii)The Study of Philosophy (after 1926)
Antonio Gramsci
iv) Inherit the Whirlwind (2004, 2005)
Thomas Frank
bibliography
index
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What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like “human nature”-a term that has played its role in rhetoric, but that does not appear to have a definite, agreed-upon meaning? Indeed we can learn a great deal about some of the most influential modern philosophers, from the Enlightenment to Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V.O. Quine, by examining what they have to say about common sense, whilst the anthropologist Clifford Geertz observed that common sense “has become a central category, almost the central category, in a wide range of modern philosophical systems.”
This book investigates the nature of common sense through a selection of key writings on epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, meta-ethics and the philosophy of economics and political philosophy. The authors included are representative of the Scottish School, such as David Hume, the Ordinary Language School, and members of the Analytic tradition, including Karl Popper, but they also incorporate thinkers like John Dewey from the American pragmatist tradition, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, recent popular writers on economics, and even pamphleteers, from Thomas Paine to contemporary engaged journalists.
This is the first reader to provide such a comprehensive overview of the central writings on common sense. It features review questions and further reading lists at the end of each section.
