TY - BOOK ID - 7667883 TI - Twentieth-century analytical philosophy PY - 2000 SN - 0231112203 9780231112208 0231112211 9780231112215 PB - New York Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - Analysis (Philosophy) KW - -Analysis, Linguistic (Philosophy) KW - Analysis, Logical KW - Analysis, Philosophical KW - Analytic philosophy KW - Analytical philosophy KW - Linguistic analysis (Philosophy) KW - Logical analysis KW - Philosophical analysis KW - Philosophy, Analytical KW - Language and languages KW - Methodology KW - Philosophy KW - Logical positivism KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - History KW - Analysis, Linguistic (Philosophy) KW - Philosophie analytique KW - Analysis (Philosophy). KW - Analytische filosofie. KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - History of philosophy KW - anno 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7667883 AB - Analytic philosophy is difficult to define it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism - the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to knowledge it also has humanistic ties to the great thinkers and philosophical problems of the past. Moreover, no single feature characterizes the activities of analytic philosophers. Undaunted by these difficulties, 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? Imbued with clarity, liveliness, and philosophical sophistication, Stroll`s book presents a synoptic picture of the main developments in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics in the past century. It does this by concentrating on the individual thinkers whose ideas have been most influential. ER -