What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy

by Gary Gutting

Book Overview

Philosophy has never delivered on its promise to settle the great moral and religious questions of human existence, and even most philosophers conclude that it does not offer an established body of disciplinary knowledge. Gary Gutting challenges this view by examining detailed case studies of recent achievements by analytic philosophers such as Quine, Kripke, Gettier, Lewis, Chalmers, Plantinga, Kuhn, Rawls, and Rorty. He shows that these philosophers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521672228
• ISBN13: 9780521672221
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"