The crisis of method in contemporary analytic philosophy / Avner Baz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baz, Avner, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Avner Baz presents a critique of much of the work within mainstream analytic philosophy in the past five decades or so, and in particular of the recent debates within analytic philosophy concerning philosophical method. In the first part of 'The crisis of method' Baz argues that what has come to be known as the philosophical "method of cases" rests on substantive assumptions about language acquisition and use. In the second part of the book Baz challenges those assumptions, both philosophically and empirically, and presents and motivates a broadly pragmatist conception of language on which the method of cases as commonly practiced by both "armchair" and "experimental" philosophers is fundamentally misguided-more fundamentally misguided than even its staunchest critics have hitherto recognized.

Contents:

1 Methodological Confusion in Armchair and Experimental Philosophy 12

2 Internal Difficulties in Defending the Method of Cases, and the Claim of Continuity 43

3 The Method of Cases and the Representationalist Conception of Language 68

4 Contemporary "Contextualism" and the Twilight of Representationalism 91

5 The Alternative Conception of Language 123

6 Acquiring "Knowledge"-An Alternative Model 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198801882

9780198801887

OCLC:

991710756