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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baz, Avner, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Avner Baz presents a critique of the working practices of analytic philosophy in recent decades. He challenges the assumptions on which the philosophical 'method of cases' rests, and he presents a pragmatist conception of language on which the method of cases as used both 'armchair' and 'experimental' philosophers is fundamentally misguided.

Contents:

Introduction: armchair philosophy, experimental philosophy, and the minimal assumption

Methodological confusion in armchair and experimental philosophy

Internal difficulties in defending the method of cases, and the chain of continuity

The method of cases and the representationalist conception of language

Contemporary contextualism and the twilight of representationalism

The alternative conception of language

Acquiring knowledge

an alternative model

Conclusion: on going (and getting) nowhere with our words.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 16, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-252208-6

0-19-184043-2