R. G. COLLINGWOOD, An Essay on Metaphysics. 185.
An Essay on Metaphysics is one of the finest works of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943). First published in 1940, it is a broad-ranging work.One of the great Oxford philosopher's finest works, Essay on Metaphysics considers the nature of philosophy, and puts forward Collingwood's original and influential theories of causation, presuppositions, and the logic of question and answer. This new edition includes three fascinating unpublished pieces that illuminate and amplify the Essay.R. G. COLLINGWOOD, An Essay on Metaphysics. 187 thought, he will find that there is always a ' constellation ' of absolute presuppositions; each of these must be ' consupponible ' with the rest but, being absolute, none is deducible from any other of them. Moreover, although the set making up the constellation are con-.
Collingwood is the author of one of the most important treatises in meta-philosophy written in the first half of the twentieth century, An Essay on Philosophical Method (1933), which is a sustained attempt to explain why philosophy is an autonomous discipline with a distinctive method and subject matter that differ from those of the natural and the exact sciences.Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher and historian, who wrote other books such as An Essay on Metaphysics,The Idea of History,The Idea of Nature,An Autobiography, etc.
An Essay on Metaphysics is one of the finest works of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood. First published in 1940, it is a broad-ranging work in which Collingwood considers the nature of philosophy, especially of metaphysics.
