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Imitation of Rigor - An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Imitation of Rigor - An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy (Hardcover)
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J.L. Austin has written of "the blinding veil of ease and
obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful
act". By revisiting a classic "small metaphysics" puzzle drawn from
physics that launched a thousand ships of grander philosophizing,
Imitation of Rigor employs recent insights into the architectures
of effective reasoning as a means of explicating how Austin's
covert "mechanisms" operate in concrete terms. By these means, the
book attempts to reconnect analytic philosophy with the evolving
practicalities within science from which many of its grander
concerns originally sprang. In doing so, it provides an
"alternative history" of how the subject might have developed had
the diagnostic insights of its philosopher/scientist forebears
(e.g. Heinrich Hertz and Ernst Mach) not been cast aside in the
vain pursuit of inappropriate standards of "ersatz rigor".
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