To view prices and purchase online, please login, or register for an account.
What's in a Name: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
What's in a Name: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion
Contributors:
By (Author) George Albert Wells
Publisher:
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint:
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Publication Date:
7th February 1994
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Religion: general
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Mysticism
Dewey:
410
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Weight:
422g
Description
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.
