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One would expect that so successful and controversial a philosophical school as analytic philosophy would have a clear platform of substantive philosophical views. However, this is not so. For at least 30 years, analytic philosophy has consisted in an increasingly loose and variable amalgam of philosophical topics, views and methods. This state of affairs has led some to claim that, despite its professional entrenchment, analytic philosophy is in a state of crisis. Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion argues that this is so, and that the crisis is deeper and more longstanding than i

The work of the great philosophers of the past is well known. From Aristotle and Plato to Kant and Wittgenstein, the answers to life's biggest questions have been discussed and debated endlessly. But, as philosophy itself teaches, there is never a final solution to a philosophical problem. In the search for higher meaning, Nicholas Fearn has travelled the globe to interview the world's most distinguished thinkers, from Derek Parfit, David Wiggins and Bernard Williams, to Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty and Bernard-Henri Lévi. Philosophy is a brilliant and compelling guide to the latest answ

This volume investigates how, through critical engagement, the philosophy of Donald Davidson in the Western analytic tradition and some thoughts and strands in Chinese philosophy can jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise and shows how such comparative methodology of constructive engagement is important or even indispensable in general philosophical inquiry. The anthology consists of 12 previously unpublished essays by experts in relevant areas of study, which are organized into five parts respectively on conceptual schemes and cross-cultural understanding, the principle of charity, rationality and normativity, meaning and interpretation, and truth concern and dao concern. The anthology also includes the volume editor's theme introduction on how the constructive engagement of Davidson's philosophy and Chinese philosophy is possible. Contributors include: Stephen C. Angle, Chung-ying Cheng, Kim-chong Chong, Yiu-ming Fung, Michael Krausz, A.P. Martinich, Bo Mou, Koji Tanaka, Samuel C. Wheeler, David B. Wong, Yang Xiao, and Yujian Zheng

Contents/Table des matières -- African 'Philosophy': Deconstructive and reconstructive challenges -- African Philosophy: A brief personal history and current debate -- African philosophy in context: A reply to Hountondji's 'Que Peut la Philosophie' -- Myths, symbols and other life-worlds: The limits of empiricism -- The philosophical significance of Bantu nomenclature: A shot at contemporary African philosophy -- The concept of mind with particular reference to the language and thought of the Akans -- Alexis Kagame and Afican socio-linguistics -- Old Gods, new worlds: Some recent work in the philosophy of African traditional religion -- The idea of art in African thought -- Rationalism in the contemporary Arab world -- African philosophy: Its proto-history and future history -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

1. Expressing / William P. Alston -- 2. On the complexity of avowals / Bruce Aune -- 3. Must every inference be either deductive or inductive? / S.F. Barker -- 4. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy / Stanley Cavell -- 5. Seeing surfaces and physical objects / Thompson Clarke -- 6. Aesthetic essence / Marshall Cohen -- 7. Action and responsibility / Joel Feinberg -- 8. Explanations in psychology / Jerry A. Fodor -- 9. Frege's theory of number / Charles D. Parsons -- 10. The free will defence / Alvin Plantinga -- 11. What is a speech act? -- 12. Quantum physics and the philosophy of Whitehead / Abner Shimony -- 13. Predicability / Fred Sommers -- 14. Reasons and reasoning / Judith Jarvis Thomson.

A comprehensive introduction to political philosophy. Introduces key thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Mill, Berlin, Rawls and Nozick. Issues discussed include utilitarianism, liberty, rights, justice and democracy.

Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive treatment of philosophical concepts and questions, including knowledge, belief, free will, moral luck, Bayesian confirmation theory, causation, and explanation

1. Presocratic Greek philosophy -- 2. Greek philosophy : Plato, Aristotle -- 3. Medieval philosophy : Augustine, Aquinas, Ockham -- 4. Rationalism : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz -- 5. Empiricism : Locke, Berkeley, Hume -- 6. Transcendental idealism : Kant -- 7. Later German philosophy : Hegel, Nietzsche -- 8. Analytical philosophy : Russell, Wittgenstein -- 9. Phenomenology and existentialism : Husserl, Sartre -- 10. Logical philosophy : Wittgenstein -- 11. Linguistic philosophy : Wittgenstein -- 12. Recent philosophy.