The Devil in Modern Philosophy

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Philosophy in General	p. 1
The Devil in Modern Philosophy	p. 3
The Crisis in the Humanities and the Mainstream of Philosophy	p. 8
Reflections on Philosophy, Especially in America	p. 37
On Being Wrong	p. 45
Is Belief Really Necessary?	p. 52
On Ethics	p. 65
Maxims	p. 67
Ethics and Logic	p. 78
Knowing How and Validity	p. 94
Morality and 'Je Ne Sais Quoi' Concepts	p. 104
Some Ancestors	p. 111
French Eighteenth-Century Materialism	p. 113
Philosophy in Particular	p. 149
Thought and Time, or the Reluctant Relativist	p. 151
Poker Player	p. 166
Ayer's Epistle to the Russians	p. 172
Ayer on Moore and Russell	p. 185
The Belief Machine	p. 193
Psychologists and Others	p. 199
The Ascent of Life	p. 201
Man's Picture of His World	p. 206
On Freud and Reich	p. 211
A Genetic Psychologist's Confessions	p. 216
Eysenck: Seeing Emperors Naked	p. 221
On Chomsky	p. 225
Sources	p. 233
Bibliography of Ernest Gellner	p. 235
Index of Names	p. 247
Index of Subjects	p. 250
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