Empty ideas: a critique of analytic philosophy
During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly. This book lays crucial challenges at the door of mainstream analytic philosophy, for Unger argues persuasively that (contrary to its explicit self-conception), a great deal of recent…
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- Full title :Empty ideas : a critique of analytic philosophy / Peter Unger.
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During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly. This book lays crucial challenges at the door of mainstream analytic philosophy, for Unger argues persuasively that (contrary to its explicit self-conception), a great deal of recent philosophy has been concerned with merely conceptual issues - nothing 'concretely substantial'.
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- Publication Date:2014.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199378524, 0199378525
- oclc:ocn941510544
- LC Classification:BD331
- Dewey Decimal:110
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