Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done / Edition 1

Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done / Edition 1

by Roy A. Sorensen
ISBN-10:
041509464X
ISBN-13:
9780415094641
Pub. Date:
09/02/1993
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
041509464X
ISBN-13:
9780415094641
Pub. Date:
09/02/1993
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done / Edition 1

Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done / Edition 1

by Roy A. Sorensen

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Overview

First published in 1993. Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? Does time flow at an even rate? These are just two of the questions that won't be answered in Pseudo-Problems. This book explains how problems are dissolved rather than solved. Roy Sorenson takes the most important and interesting examples from one hundred years of analytic philosophy (and the odd one from the centuries before) to consolidate a new theory of dissolution. Pseudo-Problems is a fast-moving, fascinating alternative history of twentieth-century analytic philosophy, and a fine example of what philosophical analysis should be. Not least, it is an important contribution to the debates about creativity and problem solving.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415094641
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/02/1993
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Sorensen, Roy A.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Question quality control, 2. Get ‘real’!, 3. Problems with ‘pseudo-problems’, 4. The soft consensual underbelly of dispute, 5. #?‘!+@mean$@ing~l$ ss*ne$$ˆ, 6. The devil’s volleyball, 7. Popped presuppositions, 8. The unity of opposites, 9. Forging the stream of consciousness, 10. Beyond our ken, 11. The edge of reason, 12. Undermining the undeserving, 13. Enlightened tasks, 14. Depth, Bibliography, Index
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