Beyond Analytic Philosophy: Doing Justice to What We Know (MIT Press) - Softcover

Wang, Hao

 
9780262730808: Beyond Analytic Philosophy: Doing Justice to What We Know (MIT Press)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262730804 ISBN 13: 9780262730808
Verlag: MIT Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

This cogent and knowledgeable critique of the tradition of modern analytic philosophy focuses on the work of its central figures―Russell, Carnap, and Quine―and finds it wanting. In its place, Hao Wang unfolds his own original view of what philosophy could and should be. The base of any serious philosophy, he contends, should take as its point of departure the actual state of human knowledge. He explains the relation of this new tradition to mathematical logic and reveals the crucial transitions and mistakes in mainstream Anglo-American philosophy that make a new approach so compelling. Equally at home in philosophy and mathematics, Wang is uniquely qualified to take on the task of critically examining modern philosophy. He carefully traces the path of ideas from Russell and Wittgenstein through the Vienna Circle to modern British and American philosophy, and makes use of his familiarity with the profound thought of Kurt Gödel with whom he has had numerous discussions. He also presents the broader significance of Russell's philosophy, provides a comprehensive and unified treatment of Quine's work in logic and in philosophy, and delineates what is common between Carnap and Quine.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hao Wang is Professor of Logic at The Rockefeller University and author of scores of articles and several books on logic, computers, and philosophy, including From Mathematics to Philosophy (extensively discussed with Gödel and containing contributions by him) and Beyond Analytic Philosophy: Doing Justice to What We Know (MIT Press Bradford Books). He is currently preparing a companion volume, Conversations with Kurt Gödel which will concentrate on Gödel's unpublished ideas.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262730804
ISBN 13 
9780262730808
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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