A hundred years of philosophy
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A hundred years of philosophy
（Penguin books）（Penguin philosophy）
Penguin, 1994, c1966
2nd ed
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2nd ed. originally published: Duckworth, 1966
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
In this survey, John Passmore concentrates on the British tradition in logic, metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, yet he never neglects parallel developments in Europe and America. He considers the crucial new insights that were generated into probability, propositions and private languages, meaning, minds and bodies and the limits of science. Accounts explore the main schools and individual contributions of philosophers ranging from Ayer to Bradley, from Heidegger to Popper, from Moore to Merleau-Ponty and from Russell to Ryle.
Table of Contents
- John Stuart Mill and British empiricism
- materialism, naturalism and agnosticism
- towards the absolute
- personality and the absolute
- pragmatism and its European analogues
- new developments in logic
- the movement towards objectivity
- Moore and Russell
- Cook Wilson and Oxford philosophy
- the new realists
- critical realism and American naturalism
- recalcitrant metaphysicians
- natural scientists turn philosophers
- some Cambridge philosophers and Wittgenstein's "Tractatus"
- logical positivism
- logic, semantics and methodology
- Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy
- existentialism and phenomenology
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