Beyond Analytic Philosophy Doing Justice to What We Know Hao Wang Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Russell and philosophy in this century 45 2. A digression on Wittgenstein's philosophy 75 3. From Vienna 1925 to America 1984 101 4. Quine's logical negativism 153 5. Metaphilosophical observations 191 References 215 Chronological table 231 Index 261

This cogent and knowledgeable critique of the tradition of modern analytic philosophy focuses on the work of its central figures—Russell, Carnap, and Quine—and finds it wanting. In its place, Hao Wang unfolds his own original view of what philosophy could and should be. The base of any serious philosophy, he contends, should take as its point of departure the actual state of hu...(展开全部)

Beyond Analytic Philosophy Doing Justice to What We Know Hao Wang Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Russell and philosophy in this century 45 2. A digression on Wittgenstein's philosophy 75 3. From Vienna 1925 to America 1984 101 4. Quine's logical negativism 153 5. Metaphilosophical observations 191 References 215 Chronological table 231 Index 261

Analytic philosophy is roughly a hundred years old, and it is now the dominant force within Western philosophy. Interest in its historical development is increasing, but there has hitherto been no sustained attempt to elucidate what it currently amounts to, and how it differs from so-called 'continental' philosophy. In this rich and wide-ranging book, Hans Johann Glock argues t...(展开全部)

Philosophy has never delivered on its promise to settle the great moral and religious questions of human existence, and even most philosophers conclude that it does not offer an established body of disciplinary knowledge. Gary Gutting challenges this view by examining detailed case studies of recent achievements by analytic philosophers such as Quine, Kripke, Gettier, Lewis, Ch...(展开全部)

Philosophy has never delivered on its promise to settle the great moral and religious questions of human existence, and even most philosophers conclude that it does not offer an established body of disciplinary knowledge. Gary Gutting challenges this view by examining detailed case studies of recent achievements by analytic philosophers such as Quine, Kripke, Gettier, Lewis, Ch...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

《我们所能知道的》是一部探索、一部文学惊悚片和一段爱情故事，它跨越过去、现在和未来，提出了关于我们是谁以及我们将去往哪里的深刻问题。 2014年：一首伟大的诗歌被大声朗诵，却再也听不到。几代人以来，人们一直在猜测它所蕴含的信息，但至今仍未找到任何抄本。 2119年：英国的低地被不断上升的海平面淹没。幸存下来的人们被失落的世界的丰富多彩所困扰。 汤姆·梅特卡夫是南唐斯大学的学者，南唐斯大学是英国仅存的群岛之一。他深入研究了21世纪初的档案，被人类生活时期的自由与可能性深深吸引。 当他偶然发现一条可能指向这失传巨作的线索时，纠缠不清的爱情和残酷的犯罪真相浮现，打破了他对一个他自认为非常了解的故事的假设。 《我们能知道什么》是一部杰作，它将我们眼前的现实从迫在眉睫的灾难感中解放出来，并描绘了一个并非一切都已消失的未来世界。 A quest, a liter...(展开全部)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why a...(展开全部)