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Contemporary Philosophy Philosophy in English Since 1945

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ISBN-10: 0192892584

ISBN-13: 9780192892584

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thomas Baldwin

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This accessible and up-to-date survey introduces the central debates of English-language philosophy since 1945. A brief description of philosophical debates during the first half of the twentieth century is followed by extended discussions of some of the writings of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin, Quine, and Sellars. The book then describes several ensuing philosophical debates that have shaped philosophical discussions from the 1960s until the present day. There are chapters on: the Davidson/Dummett debate concerning language; the Kripke/Lewis debate concerning possible worlds; the Popper/Kuhn debate concerning science; the debates concerning epistemology, materialism, functionalism, and…    
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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.76" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Setting the Scene: 1945
The Analytical Project
Common Sense, Naturalism, and Pragmatism
The Turn from Language and the Possibility of Philosophy
Investigating Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
Language-games
Rule-following
The Private Language Argument
The Grammar of Mind
First-Person/Third-Person Asymmetries
On Certainty
Wittgenstein's Naturalism
The Oxford Movement
Ordinary Language Philosophy
Gilbert Ryle
The Concept of Mind
The Ghost in the Machine
Abilities and Dispositions
J. L. Austin
Sense and Sensibilia
Doing Things with Words
Sir Peter Strawson
Conversational Implicature
The American Point of View
The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Quine's Criticisms of Analyticity
Empiricism Naturalized
The Indeterminacy of Translation
Indeterminacy Reinterpreted and Naturalism Revised
Analyticity Reconsidered
Wilfred Sellars
Understanding Language
Davidson and Truth-conditions
Radical Interpretation
Thought and Language
Against Scepticism and Relativism
Semantic Analysis
Dummett and Understanding
Manifesting Understanding
Anti-realism
Meaning, Evidence, and Knowledge
Meaning and Convention
Exploring the Possibilities
Quine's Essential Doubts
Possible Worlds
Rigid Designators
Essentialism
'Water = H[subscript 2]O'
Modal Realism
Modal Fictions
The Scientific Paradigm
The Three-sided Debate
Popper and Logical Empiricism
The Kuhnian Revolution
Incommensurability and Procedural Rationality
Scientific Realism and the Pessimistic Meta-induction
Natural Doubts
The Brain-in-a-vat
Hume's Riddle and Goodman's Paradox
Responding to Sceptical Arguments
Transcendental Arguments
Putnam's Brain
Reliable Belief
Externalism and Internalism in Epistemology
Knowledge
The Absolute Conception
Aspects of Mind
Intention and Action
Reasons and Causes
Anomalous Monism
The Mind/Body Identity Theory
Functionalism
Dual Aspect Theory
Supervenience
Free Will
Knowledge of Self and Others
Intentionality
Brutes
Externalism
Consciousness
Questions of Value
Hare and the Language of Morals
Hare's Critics
Moral Psychology and the Internalism Debates
Moral Realism
Expressivism
Objectivity
Virtues, Duties, and Consequences
The Dimensions of Morality
The End of Philosophy?
The Renewal of Philosophy
Rorty the Sceptic
Philosophy and Method
References and Further Reading
Index