Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy

by Peter K. Unger

Book Overview

Peter Unger's provocative new book poses a serious challenge to contemporary analytic philosophy, arguing that to its detriment it focuses the predominance of its energy on "empty ideas."

In the mid-twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Leading philosophers were concerned with little more than the semantics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019069601X
• ISBN13: 9780190696016
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"