دانلود کتاب Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies

'When philosophers follow where argument leads, too often they are led to doctrines undistinguishable from sheer lunacy - and nobody quite notices! Somehow, the way we write and read philosophy can entice us into taking absurdities seriously. A none-too-gentle shaking does us good. Once it was Moore who did the job. Nowadays it is above all Stove, and he does it with devastating wit. Naked emperors, beware.'
David Lewis, Princeton University
This is a book of philosophy, written by a philosopher and intended for anyone who knows enough philosophy to have been seriously injured, antagonized, mystified or intoxicated by it. The aim of the hook is to deflate a few philosophical reputations.
In The Plato Cult Stove is passionately polemical, philosophical counterpart to Tom Wolfe. He lambasts both the dead (Plato, Hegel, Kant, Foucault) and the living (Popper, Nozick, Feyerabend, Goodman). Yet he says things that need to be said, and that others often lack the courage to say.
These essays are elegant, provocative and often hilariously funny.
David Stove was formerly Associate Professor in the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is married, with one son and one daughter, and lives in his native Australia. His previous publications include Popper and After: Four Modern lrrationalists (1982 ) and The Rationality of Induction (1986 ).