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The Philosophy of Philosophy (Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy) (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy): 4

The Philosophy of Philosophy (Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy) (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy): 4

by WILLIAMSON (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy , this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 348
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 20 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 140513397X
ISBN 13: 9781405133975

Media Reviews
Worthwhile reading ... for anyone reckoning him or herself to be part of the analytic tradition. Superb in coming to grips with one's methodological self-understanding. Metapsychology
Author Bio
Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts. Williamson is the author of Identity and Discrimination (1990), Vagueness (1996), Knowledge and its Limits (2000) and numerous articles on logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.