Read more
Informationen zum Autor Michael Dummett was Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University until his retirement in 1992. He has also taught at Stanford University! Princeton University! the University of Bologna! the University of Ghana! and Harvard University! and is the author of numerous volumes! including Truth and the Past! The Seas of Language! and Origins of Analytical Philosophy. Klappentext Having spent decades teaching philosophy in American! Asian! African! and European universities! Michael Dummett has witnessed firsthand the fractured state of contemporary practice and the urgent need for reconciliation. Setting forth a proposal for renewal and reengagement! Dummett begins by describing the nature of philosophical inquiry as it has developed for centuries! especially its exceptional openness and perspective! which has! ironically! led to our present crisis. He discusses philosophy in relation to science! religion! morality! language! and meaning and suggests avenues for healing the discipline! potentially around a renewed investigation of the mind! language! and thought. Dummett's popularity as a teacher and writer stems from his frankness and accessibility! and he brings these very qualities to a major intellectual intervention. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Philosophy as an Academic Subject2. What Is a Philosophical Question?3. Philosophy as the Grammar of Thought4. Science5. Psychology and Scientism6. Religion and Philosophy7. Religion and Morality8. The Influence of Gottlob Frege9. Frege's Analysis of Sentences10. Frege's Theory of Meaning11. Gadamer on Language12. The Paradox of Analysis13. Thought and Language14. Realism15. Relativism16. The Future of Philosophy
