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Intro -- Contents -- 1: The Medieval Philosophers -- 2: The Birth of Modern Philosophy: The Renaissance Period -- 3: The British Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume -- 4: Critical Philosophy: Immanuel Kant -- 5: Idealism and Materialism: Hegel and Marx -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Picture Credits -- Index -- About the Author.

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

The conflict with the appointment of an interim leadership at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences is seen as both situational and systemic. The problem corresponds to the main topics of the author's research: 1) modern and postmodern; 2) general theory of ideology and analysis of spe­cific ideological processes; 3) problems of intellectual, political and institutional freedom. Attempts to discredit the activities of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in terms of format and style fit, on the one hand, into the traditions of the well-known "doctors' plot", and on the other hand, into the experience of the latest extreme postmodernism with its most open ec­lecticism and disconnection from external reference. At the same time, there is an implicit attitude towards ideology not as a system of ideas, but as a system of institutions. This allows us to talk about analogies with the practice of raider capture. Philosophy is considered as a self-sufficient and at the same time prac­tically oriented type of intellectual activity. This self-sufficiency brings it closer to art, in which, starting from a certain level of masterpieces and geniuses, gen­eral value hierarchical comparisons are considered not quite correct.

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.