Philosopher of precision and soul: Introducing Walker Percy

Zygon 51 (4):983-998 (2016)
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This article introduces the work of philosopher-novelist Walker Percy to the Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science readership. After some biographical and contextual preliminaries, I suggest that the conceptual collecting feature to Percy's work is his critique of abstractionism manifest in a tripartite congruence of Cartesianism, derivatively misapplied science, and social atomism.

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10.1111/zygo.12306

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Tractatus logico-philosophicus.Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1922 - Filosoficky Casopis 52:336-341.
Introduction to the symposium.Leslie Marsh - 2009 - Zygon 44 (1):133-137.

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