When Words Are Called for - A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy

Klappentext Challenging mainstream analytic philosophers to reconsider basic assumptions! Baz defends the much maligned ordinary language philosophy as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to current work on philosophical "intuitions!" knowledge! and other areas of philosophical difficulty. He both argues for OLP and practices it here. Zusammenfassung Challenging mainstream analytic philosophers to reconsider basic assumptions, Baz defends the much maligned ordinary language philosophy as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to current work on philosophical “intuitions,” knowledge, and other areas of philosophical difficulty. He both argues for OLP and practices it here.

Product details

• Authors: Avner Baz
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2012
• EAN: 9780674055223
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05522-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism