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Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

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Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

By: Avrum Stroll

Avrum Stroll investigates the "family resemblances" between that impressive breed of thinkers known as analytic philosophers. In so doing, he grapples with the point and purpose of doing philosophy: What is philosophy? What are its tasks? What kind of information, illumination, and understanding is it supposed to provide if it is not one of the natural sciences?

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Columbia University Press

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0231112211

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9780231112215

Philosophy

Made Simple

By: Richard H. Popkin,Avrum Stroll

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Philosophy

Made Simple

By: Richard H. Popkin,Avrum Stroll

Philosophy: Made Simple, Second Edition provides information pertinent to the fundamental philosophical problems. This book discusses the developments in philosophy. Organized into seven chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the usage of philosophy in the interpretation or evaluation of what is important or meaningful in life. This text then examines the intimate connections of political philosophy with ethics and with the social sciences. Other chapters consider some of the fundamental metaphysical problems that have persisted throughout the ages and examine the most popular metaphysical systems in the history of philosophy. This book discusses as well the aspect of philosophy that examines the intellectual questions that arise in considering religious views. The final chapter examines some of the main movements in modern philosophy. This book is a valuable resource for teachers as well as undergraduate and graduate students. Readers who are seeking the simplest introductions to philosophy will also find this book useful.

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385

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Elsevier

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1483183238

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9781483183237

Informal Philosophy

By: Avrum Stroll

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Informal Philosophy

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Informal Philosophy provides an original look at how we should understand and teach philosophy. Avrum Stroll persuasively argues that philosophy should be evaluated using its own methodology and should not merely mimic formal scientific analysis, because while modern science does inform our philosophical views about man and his place in nature, it does not solve philosophical problems. Stroll effectively makes the case for the use of informal philosophy—that is, an approach guided by common sense, appealing to ordinary discourse, and employing a context-driven line of inquiry—to answer philosophical problems.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742570290

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9780742570290

Much Ado about Nonexistence

Fiction and Reference

By: Aloysius Martinich,Avrum Stroll

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Much Ado about Nonexistence

Fiction and Reference

By: Aloysius Martinich,Avrum Stroll

Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742548341

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9780742548343

Philosophy

Made Simple

By: Richard H. Popkin,Avrum Stroll

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Made Simple

By: Richard H. Popkin,Avrum Stroll

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Informal Philosophy

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Sketches of Landscapes

Philosophy by Example

By: Avrum Stroll

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Sketches of Landscapes

Philosophy by Example

By: Avrum Stroll

Avrum Stroll accepts the ancient tradition that one of the tasks of philosophy is to give an accurate account of the world's features, both animate and inanimate. But, he contends, because these features are inexhaustibly complex, no single theory or conceptual model can provide a complete account. Stroll's approach is piecemeal and example-oriented. In stressing the importance of examples, his work runs counter to one of the most powerful and seductive ways of thinking about the world—the Platonic tradition, which denigrates examples in the search for qualities or essences. Stroll favors pluralism, on the ground that this is how the world is.The "landscapes" of the title refers to various conceptual landscapes. Using the methodological approach he calls philosophy by example, the author discusses seven major problems of epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language: skepticism, direct reference theories and natural kinds, the relationship between the microscopic and macroscopic, the logic of examples, direct reference and fiction, holistic theories of meaning, and direct versus indirect realism in perception. It is the author's method that binds together the different topics, but the method is not the message. What matters are the substantive results. His unique analyses reveal new understandings of some difficult problems.

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MIT Press

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026226451X

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9780262264518

Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

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Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of skepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.

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Oxford University Press

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0195359135

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Much Ado About Nonexistence

Fiction and Reference

By: Avrum Stroll

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Much Ado About Nonexistence

Fiction and Reference

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The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities. In Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence, A. P. Martinich and Avrum Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference and its relation to truth. Included in the discussion is the authors' new, contemporary theory of fiction developed as an extension of the speech act theory of H. P. Grice, as well as the relationship between nonexistence and Bertrand Russell's well-known theory of definite descriptions, and Hilary Putnam's theory of the relationship between common names and the world.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461640229

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Sketches of Landscapes

Philosophy by Example

By: Avrum Stroll

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Philosophy by Example

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MIT Press

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Philosophy

By: R. H. Popkin,Richard Henry Popkin,Avrum Stroll

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Philosophy

By: R. H. Popkin,Richard Henry Popkin,Avrum Stroll

In this third edition, the chapter on ethics has been expanded and updated to include material on euthanasia, abortion and censorship. The impact of the break-up of the former communist countries is discussed in the chapter on political philosophy. The book contains new material on artificial intelligence, logic and contemporary philosophy.

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Taylor & Francis

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0750609427

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9780750609425

Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

By: Avrum Stroll

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Oxford University Press

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