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283

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Philosophy, Modern, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, modern, 20th century, Philosophie, Filosofie, Filosofen

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20th century
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Cover of: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
1992, Phoenix
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
1992, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Cover of: Philosophy in the twentieth century
Philosophy in the twentieth century
1984, Unwin Paperbacks
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
1984, Vintage Books
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
1982, Random House
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
1982, Random House
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
1982, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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First Sentence

"One of the difficulties that faces the historian of philosophy is that his subject is not at all clearly demarcated for him."

Table of Contents

Preface
Page ix
I. Philosophical Inheritance
Page 1
II. The Revolt From Hagel
Page 19
Bertran Russell
Page 20
His Approach to Philosophy
Page 22
The Theory of Descriptions and The Theory of Types
Page 25
His Theories of Knowledge and of What There Is
Page 31
G. E. Moore
Page 40
Principia Ethica
Page 41
Moore and Prichard
Page 48
The Refutation of Idealism
Page 55
The Defence of Common Sense
Page 59
III. Pragmatism
Page 69
William James
Page 69
The Character of James's Pragmatism
Page 70
Radical Empiricism
Page 75
James's Theory of Truth
Page 79
C. I. Lewis
Page 83
His Theories of Knowledge and Meaning
Page 84
His Moral Philosophy
Page 102
IV. Wittgenstein, Popper, and the Vienna Circle
Page 108
The Tractatus and its Sequals
Page 108
Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath and Rudolph Carnap
Page 121
Karl Popper on Induction
Page 131
The Consentration on Syntax
Page 134
Tarski's Theory of Truth
Page 136
The Fate of the Circle
Page 138
V. Wittgenstein, Carnap and Ryle
Page 142
The Later Wittgenstein
Page 142
Carnap and Semantics
Page 157
Gilbert Ryle and the Concept of Mind
Page 164
VI. Phisicalism
Page 170
Broad on Mind and Matter
Page 170
Strawson's Concept of a Person
Page 178
Armstrong's Materialism
Page 180
Davidson's Argument
Page 187
Summary
Page 189
VII. The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood
Page 191
The Influence of Croce
Page 192
The Theory of Absolute Presuppositions
Page 197
Causality and the Idea of Nature
Page 205
The Idea of History
Page 209
VIII. Phenomenology and Existentialism
Page 214
The Foundation in Brentano and Husserl
Page 214
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Page 216
His Account of Perception
Page 216
On the World as Perceived
Page 223
The Early Work of Heidegger and Sartre
Page 226
IX. Later Developments
Page 234
Linguistic Philosophy
Page 234
J. L. Austin
Page 234
Noam Chomsky
Page 239
W. V. Quine
Page 242
Nelson Goodman
Page 253
Michael Dummett
Page 262
Essentialism
Page 267
Index
Page 271

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
190/.9/04
Library of Congress
B804 .A818 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 283 p. ;
Number of pages
283

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OL3186745M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0394716558
LCCN
83047822
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