Introducing analytic philosophy : its sense and its nonsense, 1879-2002 / Herbert Hochberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochberg, Herbert, 1929-

Series:

Logos (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 3.

Logos : Studien zur Logik, Sprachphilosophie und Metaphysik ; Band 3

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos-Verlag, 2003.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Philosophy took a "linguistic turn" in the twentieth century that was marked by the focus on theories of meaning, reference, description, predication and truth. Starting with the roots of the analytic tradition in Frege, Meinong and Bradley, this book follows its development in Russell and Wittgenstein and the writings of major philosophers of the analytic tradition and of various lesser, but well known and widely discussed, contemporary figures. In dealing with basic issues that have preoccupied analytic philosophers in the past century, the author notes how analytic philosophy is sometimes transformed from its original concern with careful and precise formulations of classical issues into the dismissal of such issues and the resultant spinning of intricate verbal webs, often signaling the rebirth of idealism in the guises of "contextualism" and "anti-realism." The book thus examines the change that came to dominate the analytic tradition by a shift of focus from the world, as what words are about, to a preoccupation with language itself.

Contents:

Front matter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 THE LINGUISTIC TURN

CHAPTER 2 DESCRIBING AND DENOTING

CHAPTER 3 MEANING, TRUTH AND ANTI-REALISM

CHAPTER 4 FACTS, INTENTIONS AND ABSTRACTION

REFERENCES

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781306430463

1306430461

9783110320763

3110320762

OCLC:

885389487