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Sociology of knowledge --- Common sense --- Horse sense --- Judgment --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Prudence --- Reason

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Philosophy, Scottish --- Common sense --- Scottish philosophy --- Horse sense --- Prudence --- Judgment --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reason --- Philosophie écossaise --- Sens commun

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In this 2004 book, Noah Lemos presents a strong defense of the common sense tradition, the view that we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of that tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm. For a long time common sense philosophers have been subject to two main objections: that they fail to give any non-circular argument for the reliability of memory and perception; and that they pick out instances of knowledge without knowing a criterion for knowledge. Lemos defends the appeal to what we ordinarily think we know in both epistemology and ethics and thus rejects the charge that common sense is dogmatic, unphilosophical or question-begging. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.

Common sense --- Horse sense --- Judgment --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Prudence --- Reason --- Common sense. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Arts and Humanities

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Common sense --- History --- 18th century --- Philosophy of mind --- Senses and sensation --- Horse sense --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Judgment --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Prudence --- Reason --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology

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While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as 'common sense' or 'good sense' are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture - Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson - and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.

Literature and society --- Common sense in literature. --- English literature --- Common sense --- History --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Horse sense --- Judgment --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Prudence --- Reason --- Common sense. --- English literature. --- eighteenth-century culture. --- eighteenth-century literature.