Analysis and metaphysics : an introduction to philosophy
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Analysis and metaphysics : an introduction to philosophy
Oxford University Press, 1992
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practice mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understanding which philosophy seeks to achieve. In this book one of the most distinguished of living philosophers, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader, sets out to explain and illustrate a certain conception of the nature of analytical philosophy. Professor Strewson draws on his many years of teaching at Oxford University, during which he refined and developed what he regards as the most productive route to understanding the fundamental structure of human thinking.
Among the distinctive features of his exposition are the displacement of an older reductive conception of philosophical method (the ideal of "analyzing" complex ideas into simpler elements) in favour of elucidating the inter-connections between the complex but irreducible notions which form the basic structure of our thinking; and the demonstration that the three traditionally distinguished departments of metaphysics (ontology), epistemology, and logic are but three aspects of one unified enquiry.
Table of Contents
- Analytical philosophy - two analogies
- reduction or connection? - basic concepts
- Moore and Quine
- logic, epistemology, ontology
- sensible experience and material objects
- classical empiricism - the inner and the outer - action and society
- truth and knowledge
- meaning and understanding - structural semantics
- causation and explanation
- freedom and necessity.
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