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Book SynopsisContemporary western philosophy divides into three broad traditions: the analytical, the continental, and the historical. In the latter half of the twentieth century, analytical philosophy was dominant in the English-speaking world and tended to ignore the other two traditions. Now, however, analytical philosophy is less isolationist. It has come to appreciate the vitality of historical philosophy.
Given their commonality of interests and shared appreciation of the values of conceptual clarity and argumentative rigour, it is particularly appropriate that there should be engagement between the main English-language tradition and the philosophy of Aquinas and, more broadly, of Thomism. The essays in this collection range widely across the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, and theory of value with most linking analytical and Aristotelian-Thomistic ideas and some focusing on Aquinas in particular.
This collection is distinctive in content an
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“This is a collection of essays on varied philosophical topics of importance. The essays are interesting, and often controversial. The authors are sympathetic to both the Thomist and the analytical tradition, but they are not afraid to be critical of each.” —Anthony Kenny, Oxford University * The Journal of Modern History *
