Avner Baz

The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780198801887
• ISBN-10: 0198801882
• Artikelnr.: 49953071

Autorenporträt

Avner Baz received his MA degree in the Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence from Tel Aviv University. He went on to complete a PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois, Chicago, under the supervision of Peter Hylton. Having been a Harper and Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago for four years, he has now been at Tufts University since 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Armchair Philosophy, Experimental Philosophy, and the
Minimal Assumption
* 1: Methodological Confusion in Armchair and Experimental Philosophy
* 2: Internal Difficulties in Defending the Method of Cases, and the
Claim of Continuity
* 3: The Method of Cases and the Representationalist Conception of
Language
* 4: Contemporary 'Contextualism' and the Twilight of
Representationalism
* 5: The Alternative Conception of Language
* 6: Acquiring 'Knowledge'-An Alternative Model
* 7: Conclusion: On Going (and Getting) Nowhere with our Words
* Appendix: Phenomenology and the Limitations of the Wittgensteinian
Grammatical Investigation