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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 is usually recognized. Synthesizing data
from early and recent studies on the historical and philosophical
foundations of analytic philosophy as well as from canonical
primary texts, it argues (1) that analytic philosophy has never
involved significant agreement on substantive philosophical views,
and thus that it has always been in this state of crisis, (2) that
this fact was long hidden by the illusion that analytic philosophy
was originally united in the metaphilosophical thesis that
philosophy is linguistic analysis, and (3) that both the rise of
analytic philosophy under this illusion and the preservation of its
privileged status since the illusion's demise have been facilitated
by a scientistic 'stance' that minimizes the traditional
philosophical duty to examine one's most fundamental assumptions.
Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas
Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a
massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the
possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral
life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the
social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this
sense, moral knowledge-as a publicly available resource for
living-has disappeared. Via a detailed survey of main developments
in ethical theory from the late 19th through the late 20th
centuries, Willard explains philosophy's role in this shift. In
pointing out the shortcomings of these developments, he shows that
the shift was not the result of rational argument or discovery, but
largely of arational social forces-in other words, there was no
good reason for moral knowledge to have disappeared. The
Disappearance of Moral Knowledge is a unique contribution to the
literature on the history of ethics and social morality. Its review
of historical work on moral knowledge covers a wide range of
thinkers including T.H Green, G.E Moore, Charles L. Stevenson, John
Rawls, and Alasdair MacIntyre. But, most importantly, it concludes
with a novel proposal for how we might reclaim moral knowledge that
is inspired by the phenomenological approach of Knud Logstrup and
Emmanuel Levinas. Edited and eventually completed by three of
Willard's former graduate students, this book marks the culmination
of Willard's project to find a secure basis in knowledge for the
moral life.
Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas
Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a
massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the
possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral
life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the
social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this
sense, moral knowledge-as a publicly available resource for
living-has disappeared. Via a detailed survey of main developments
in ethical theory from the late 19th through the late 20th
centuries, Willard explains philosophy's role in this shift. In
pointing out the shortcomings of these developments, he shows that
the shift was not the result of rational argument or discovery, but
largely of arational social forces-in other words, there was no
good reason for moral knowledge to have disappeared. The
Disappearance of Moral Knowledge is a unique contribution to the
literature on the history of ethics and social morality. Its review
of historical work on moral knowledge covers a wide range of
thinkers including T.H Green, G.E Moore, Charles L. Stevenson, John
Rawls, and Alasdair MacIntyre. But, most importantly, it concludes
with a novel proposal for how we might reclaim moral knowledge that
is inspired by the phenomenological approach of Knud Logstrup and
Emmanuel Levinas. Edited and eventually completed by three of
Willard's former graduate students, this book marks the culmination
of Willard's project to find a secure basis in knowledge for the
moral life.
Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways
interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.) shaped the
analytic tradition, from Frege to Dummet. It offers readers 17
chapters, written especially for this volume by an international
cast of leading scholars. Some chapters are devoted to large,
thematic issues like the relationship between analytic philosophy
and other philosophical traditions such as British Idealism and
phenomenology, while other chapters are tied to more fine-grained
topics or to individual philosophers, like Moore and Russell on
philosophical method or the history of interpretations of
Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Throughout, the focus is on
interpretations that are crucial to the origin, development, and
persistence of the analytic tradition. The result is a more fully
formed and philosophically satisfying portrait of analytic
philosophy.
Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways
interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.) shaped the
analytic tradition, from Frege to Dummet. It offers readers 17
chapters, written especially for this volume by an international
cast of leading scholars. Some chapters are devoted to large,
thematic issues like the relationship between analytic philosophy
and other philosophical traditions such as British Idealism and
phenomenology, while other chapters are tied to more fine-grained
topics or to individual philosophers, like Moore and Russell on
philosophical method or the history of interpretations of
Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Throughout, the focus is on
interpretations that are crucial to the origin, development, and
persistence of the analytic tradition. The result is a more fully
formed and philosophically satisfying portrait of analytic
philosophy.
This is a novel, critical account of the origins and development of
the dominant school of philosophy in the English-speaking world.
For at least 30 years, analytic philosophy has consisted in an
increasingly loose and variable amalgam of philosophical topics,
views and methods. This 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 the crisis is deeper and more longstanding than is usually
recognized. Synthesizing data from early and recent studies as well
as from canonical primary texts, it argues: that analytic
philosophy has never involved significant agreement on substantive
philosophical views, and thus that it has always been in this state
of crisis, that this fact was long hidden by the illusion that
analytic philosophy was originally united in the metaphilosophical
thesis that philosophy is linguistic analysis, and that both the
rise of analytic philosophy under this illusion and the
preservation of its privileged status since the illusion's demise
have been facilitated by a scientistic 'stance' that minimizes the
traditional philosophical duty to examine one's most fundamental
assumptions. "Continuum Studies in Philosophy" presents
cutting-edge scholarship in all the major areas of research and
study. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research
findings in titles in this series make it an important and
stimulating resource for students and academics from a range of
disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.
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