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This book explains in down-to-earth language what analytical philosophy is, and presupposes no previous knowledge of the subject. Analytical philosophers aim at obtaining insight into the traditional topics of philosophy by logical, conceptual and linguistic analysis. In this book William Charlton answers relativist attacks on this ambition and argues that its methods can still provide fresh insight into the traditional problems of philosophy. Taking such central philosophical problems as meaning, time, causation and thought, the author shows why they are problems for philosophy rather than for any other discipline, and thereby illustrates and supports a new general theory of the nature and scope of philosophical enquiry.

The Analytic Ambition is both an introduction to readers fresh to philosophy and a challenge to professional thinking that has become set in its ways.



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What is analytical philosophy?; outline of a theory; meaning; being, existence and truth; time; change and causation; teleology and mental states; moral concepts; conceiving and understanding; consciousness; thought and philosophy.

Analytic Ambition

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 18 July 1991
      ISBN-13 9780631169352
      978-0631169352
      ISBN-10 0631169350
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      Philosophy: logic Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explains in down-to-earth language what analytical philosophy is, and presupposes no previous knowledge of the subject. Analytical philosophers aim at obtaining insight into the traditional topics of philosophy by logical, conceptual and linguistic analysis. In this book William Charlton answers relativist attacks on this ambition and argues that its methods can still provide fresh insight into the traditional problems of philosophy. Taking such central philosophical problems as meaning, time, causation and thought, the author shows why they are problems for philosophy rather than for any other discipline, and thereby illustrates and supports a new general theory of the nature and scope of philosophical enquiry.

      The Analytic Ambition is both an introduction to readers fresh to philosophy and a challenge to professional thinking that has become set in its ways.



      Table of Contents
      What is analytical philosophy?; outline of a theory; meaning; being, existence and truth; time; change and causation; teleology and mental states; moral concepts; conceiving and understanding; consciousness; thought and philosophy.

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