Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

by Avrum Stroll

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231112203
• ISBN13: 9780231112208
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher