Malpas assembles and introduces 15 essays by American philosopher Stoutland (1933-2011) on what what philosophers should know about truth and the slingshot, Wittgenstein on certainty and truth, Putnam on truth, whether we need truth, making true, a mistaken view of Davidson's legacy: reading Lepore and Ludwig, Davidson and Dewey: a critical comparison, common sense psychology and physical science, philosophy of mind with and against Wittgenstein, the ontology of social agency, Searle's consciousness, self and society in the claims of individualism, interpreting Davidson's philosophy of action, the problems of congruence, and
analytic philosophy and metaphysics.
It may not be out of place to say that the book may also be read as informative about the German sources of British
analytic philosophy.--Jude P.
Analytic philosophy was refuted in the fall of 1932.
Thus, he positions himself in terms of an order of the logical, which is typical of
analytic philosophy. ,,Either you start from concept, or you end with it.
The contributors deftly explore general conceptions of philosophy, centered on the question of what the point of philosophy might be; the method of conceptual analysis and its recent naturalistic critics and competitors; perspectives from continental philosophy, and also a variety of methodological views that belong neither to the mainstream of
analytic philosophy, nor to continental philosophy as commonly conceived.
Agustin Echavarria: God seems to have a profound sense of irony, making the more important movement of revival of philosophical and theological reflection emerge from
analytic philosophy, a tradition which once was dominated by logical positivism's strong anti-metaphysical imprint.
Hence, the work brings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another from visual culture studies and art history to
analytic philosophy to musicology producing mutually illuminating approaches that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each.
For if its explosion in
analytic philosophy since the 1970s originates in the sorites paradox (how many grains of sand constitute a heap?), it finds a more immediate source in the founding figures of
analytic philosophy, specifically Frege and Russell (who sought to eradicate vague predicates by creating a logically precise language) and Wittgenstein (who sought to bring clarification about the relation between language and world).
From this perspective it is worth mentioning that contemporary modal logic, discussed in the essay of Sanford Shieh (Chapter 13, 'Logic, Modality, and Metaphysics in Early
Analytic Philosophy: C.I.
Among the topics are the origins and development of new phenomenology, phenomenology and theology reconsidered, new phenomenology on the existence and nature of God, and proposals for new phenomenology and
analytic philosophy of religion.