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Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
Avrum Stroll
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Paperback. Avrum Stroll investigates the "family resemblances" between that impressive breed of thinkers known as analytic philosophers. In so doing, he grapples with the point and purpose of doing philosophy: What is philosophy? What are its tasks? What kind of information, illumination, and understanding is it supposed to provide if it is not one of the natural sciences? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434. 304 pages. Avrum Stroll investigates the "family resemblances" between that impressive breed of thinkers known as analytic philosophers. In so doing, he grapples with the point and purpose of doing philosophy: What is philosophy? What are its tasks? What kind of information, illumination, and understanding is it supposed to provide if it is not one of the natural sciences?. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPCF5. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight: 454.
Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to knowledge -it also has humanistic ties to the great thinkers and philosophical problems of the past. Moreover, no single feature characterizes the activities of analytic philosophers. Undaunted by these difficulties, Avrum Stroll investigates the "family resemblances" between that impressive breed of thinkers known as analytic philosophers. In so doing, he grapples with the point and purpose ... Read more
Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to knowledge -it also has humanistic ties to the great thinkers and philosophical problems of the past. Moreover, no single feature characterizes the activities of analytic philosophers. Undaunted by these difficulties, Avrum Stroll investigates the "family resemblances" between that impressive breed of thinkers known as analytic philosophers. In so doing, he grapples with the point and purpose ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
434g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231112215
SKU
V9780231112215
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About Avrum Stroll
Avrum Stroll is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. A distinguished philosopher and a noted scholar in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of language, and twentieth-century analytic philosophy, he is the author of many books, most recently Surfaces, Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty, and Sketches of Landscapes: Philosophy by Example.
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