John Passmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 370604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Passmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Passmore |
| SIGNATURE | PASSMORE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hume's Intentions
John Passmore (1914–2004) was a renowned Australian empirical philosopher and historian of ideas. In this book, which was originally published in 1952, Passmore's intention was to disentangle certain main themes in Hume's philosophy and to show how they relate to Hume's main philosophic purpose. Rather than offering a detailed commentary, the text provides an account based on specificity and critical scholarship, seeking to complement the other m…
Fanaticism, Toleration and Philosophy
Evidence for the Past
Book reviewed in this article: The What and the Why of History: Philosophical Essays By Leon J. Goldstein
Interpretation Reconsidered
The Preservationist Syndrome
Eugene Kamenka
Narratives and Events
Few of us would claim to be experts on the history of Zanzibar. Picking up M. M. Kaye's historical novel Trade Wind and finding it to be set in that remote island, we might be led to wonder how far it is historically accurate, whether, by reading it, we should make ourselves better acquainted with Zanzibar's past. Since it is a novel, we should, of course, expect it to contain much that no historian would profess to know -the details of long conv…
Recent Philosophers
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Recent Philosophers: a supplement to A Hundred Years of Philosophy. BY John Passmore. (London: Duckworth, 1985. Pp. viii + 173. Price £12.50) J.R. Cameron J.R. Cameron University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 144, July 1986, Pages 451–453, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220204 Published: 01 July 1986
The Philosophy of Teaching
Science and Its Critics
Science and Its Critics
A comment by the Chairman of the German Universities Commission
Man's Responsibility for Nature
Man's Responsibility for Nature
Man's Responsibility for Nature_ is a book by John Passmore, a presumably able-bodied, presumably heterosexual, presumably a male white settler Australian philosopher, and his conception of Western history's ideas about human's (white man's) relationship to nature [not with] (predominately looking at USA, that is, colonial Turtle Island) and their (white man's, not white woman's unless you think white men can talk for the universal us?) place in …
Man's Responsibility for Nature
The Poverty of Historicism Revisited
The Poverty of Historicism was designed as a political pamphlet, a tract for its times, as its dedication makes very clear: memory of the countless men and women of all creeds or nations or races who fell victims to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Human Destiny.' Historicism, as Popper understands it, is not just an intellectual error, of interest only to professional philosophers; it is a prime source of moral and politica…
Man's Responsibility for Nature
The Treatment of Animals
Man's Responsibility for Nature
Man's Responsibility for Nature
History, Man, and Reason. A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought
The Perfectibility of Man
The Perfectibility of Man
History of Art and History of Literature
are they at best Laertian chronicles, disposing works of literature or works of art in related sequences, displaying influences, without seeking to show how these sequences came about?1 A second problem is what counts as an important event in art or literature, worth describing in detail. Is the determining factor merit, or originality, or representativity? Another problem is whether one can properly speak of progress in literature and art and, i…
The Perfectibility of Man
Book Reviews Get access The Perfectibility of Man. By John Passmore. (London : Duckworth. 1970. Pp. 396 Price £4.20) Dorothy Emmet Dorothy Emmet Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 84, July 1971, Pages 280–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218147 Published: 01 July 1971
History, Man, and Reason. A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought
Man's Responsibility for Nature
The Idea of a History of Philosophy
are learned men, wrote Kant in the Introduction to his Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics (1783), whom the history of philosophy is philosophy itself; for such men the present prolegomena have not been written. They must wait until those who attempt to draw the fountain of reason itself have made their case; it is then the historian's task to the what has been done. Moreover, in their opinion, nothing can be said which has not been said alread…
Fanaticism, Toleration and Philosophy
The Treatment of Animals
Philosophical Reasoning
Explanation in Everyday Life, in Science, and in History
The of history, like any other philosophy of, suffers at least as much from the impatience of the specialist as it does from the philosopher's passion for generalizing. The philosopher, often enough, is interested in history only because it presents some sort of prima facie exception to his general logical theories. He wants to say, for example, that enquiry always issues in generalizations, and yet must admit that history seems not to do so; or …
Descartes, The British Empiricists, and Formal Logic
Narratives and Events
Few of us would claim to be experts on the history of Zanzibar. Picking up M. M. Kaye's historical novel Trade Wind and finding it to be set in that remote island, we might be led to wonder how far it is historically accurate, whether, by reading it, we should make ourselves better acquainted with Zanzibar's past. Since it is a novel, we should, of course, expect it to contain much that no historian would profess to know -the details of long conv…
Descartes, The British Empiricists, and Formal Logic
Professor Ryle's Use of "Use" and "Usage
way of referring to what some people think about causes; use of 'cause' is an equally misleading way of referring to how some people use the word 'cause' -the first belongs to the climate of
Hume's Intentions
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Hume’s Intentions. By J. A. Passmore. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1952. Pp. x + 164. Price 18s). D. G. C. Macnabb D. G. C. Macnabb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 14, January 1954, Pages 89–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217283 Published: 01 January 1954
Les Sciences humaines en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande
Law and Explanation in History
History and Sociology
A Hundred Years of Philosophy
John Stuart Mill and British empiricism materialism, naturalism and agnosticism towards the absolute personality and the absolute pragmatism and its European analogues new developments in logic the movement towards objectivity Moore and Russell Cook Wilson and Oxford philosophy the new realists critical realism and American naturalism recalcitrant metaphysicians natural scientists turn philosophers some Cambridge philosophers and Wittgenstein's T…
History, the Individual, and Inevitability
Light and Enlightenment
Introduction 1. The background of Anglo-Dutch Arminianism 2. Philippus van Limborch and Jean Le Clerc 3. Liberal theology and liberal politics 4. Stages of mechanism: Descartes and Hobbes 5. Henry More and Spinoza 6. Henry More and Spinozan opposition in Holland 7. Cudowrth and the Vitalist controversy Bibliography Index
The Meeting of Extremes in Contemporary Philosophy
F DR. Mure's Retreat from Truth had an epigraph, it would certainly be that dictum from Appearance and Reality to which he obliquely refers in his preface: Where all is rotten it is a man's work to cry fish. That all is rotten, that spiritual sterility is leading characteristic both of contemporary poetry and of contemporary philosophy, he does not for a moment doubt; and if he cries stinking fish in a somewhat muted tone of voice, without Billin…
Philosophical Reasoning
Explanation in Everyday Life, in Science, and in History
The of history, like any other philosophy of, suffers at least as much from the impatience of the specialist as it does from the philosopher's passion for generalizing. The philosopher, often enough, is interested in history only because it presents some sort of prima facie exception to his general logical theories. He wants to say, for example, that enquiry always issues in generalizations, and yet must admit that history seems not to do so; or …
Hume's Philosophy of Belief
Preface 1. The Objects of the Exercise 2. Private Images and Public Language 3. The Great Divide 4. Arguments from Experience 5. The Nature and the Mechanics of Empirical Belief 6. The Idea of Necessary Connection 7. Liberty and Necessity 8. Miracles of Methodology 9. The Religious Hypothesis 10. Scepticism or Science Bibliography Index of Persons
Philosophy
Philosophical Reasoning
The Idea of a History of Philosophy
are learned men, wrote Kant in the Introduction to his Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics (1783), whom the history of philosophy is philosophy itself; for such men the present prolegomena have not been written. They must wait until those who attempt to draw the fountain of reason itself have made their case; it is then the historian's task to the what has been done. Moreover, in their opinion, nothing can be said which has not been said alread…
A Critical History of Western Philosophy
Philosophy
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
The Perfectibility of Man
Book Reviews Get access The Perfectibility of Man. By John Passmore. (London : Duckworth. 1970. Pp. 396 Price £4.20) Dorothy Emmet Dorothy Emmet Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 84, July 1971, Pages 280–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218147 Published: 01 July 1971
The Perfectibility of Man
The Perfectibility of Man
The Perfectibility of Man
The Perfectibility of Man
History of Art and History of Literature
are they at best Laertian chronicles, disposing works of literature or works of art in related sequences, displaying influences, without seeking to show how these sequences came about?1 A second problem is what counts as an important event in art or literature, worth describing in detail. Is the determining factor merit, or originality, or representativity? Another problem is whether one can properly speak of progress in literature and art and, i…
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