The lives of these women in turn illuminate a counter-narrative to the prevailing history of twentieth-century philosophy. Its heroes are not A. J. Ayer, J. L. Austin and R. M. Hare, but characters you may not know: H. H. Price, H.W.B. Joseph, Susan Stebbing, R. G. Collingwood, Dorothy Emmet, Mary Glover, Donald MacKinnon and Lotte Labowsky. This counter-narrative connects contemporary philosophy with the great speculative metaphysicians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Idealists and Realists, who struggled to understand the nature of truth, reality and goodness before the turn
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