Contemporary Analytic and Linguistic Philosophies

by E.D. Klemke (Editor), Heimir Geirsson

This new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to several aspects of one of the most influential schools of thought in the 20th century. Klemke covers realism and common sense (G. E. Moore); logical atomism (Bertrand Russell); logical positivism (A. J. Ayer); conceptual analysis (Gilbert Ryle, G.E. Moore, John Wisdom); logico-metaphysical analysis (Gustav Bergman, W. V. Quine); linguistic analysis (J. L. Austin, P. F. Strawson, J.R. Searle); and the recent development of new realism (Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Tyler Burge, Richard N. Boyd).

Genres: Philosophy

495 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1983

Reviews

[Erik]

Cheap enough for students to buy but where's Frege's "The Thought" and Russell's "On Denoting"? Also why so much attention to the Idealist pre-Analytic stage> Nobody cares about that today. Also to call Kripke's and Putnam's views realist in nature really begs the question. I don't find their views "realistic" in the sense of "scientific" or "naturalistic" nor do many other analytic philsophers.

[Robert]

I used this for some undergraduate philosophy class.

[Robert]

It seems t me I read this for 20th Century Philosophy during my undergraduate studies. Ted Schick was the professor.