TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ayer,A.J.
TI  - Philosophy in the twentieth century /A.J. Ayer
SN  - 9780394504544
AV  - B804 .P455 1982
PY  - 1982///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Modern Philosophy
N1  - 2; I. Philosophical Inheritance --; II. The revolt from Hegel. Bertrand Russell : His approach to philosophy ; The theory of descriptions and the theory of types ; His theories of knowledge and of what there is --; G.E. Moore : Principia ethica ; Moore and Prichard ; The refutation of idealism ; The defence of common sense --; III. Pragmatism. William James : The character of James's pragmatism ; Radical empiricism ; James's theory of truth --; C.I. Lewis : His theories of knowledge and meaning ; His moral philosophy --; IV. Wittgenstein, Popper and the Vienna Circle. The Tractatus and its sequels --; Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap --; Karl Popper on induction --; The concentration on syntax --; Tarski's theory of truth --; The fate of the Circle --; V. Wittgenstein, Carnap and Ryle. The later Wittgenstein --; Carnap and semantics --; Gilbert Ryle and the concept of mind --; VI. Physicalism. Broad on mind and matter --; Strawson's concept of a person --; Armstrong's materialism --; Davidson's argument --; Summary --; VII. The philosophy of R.G. Collingwood. The influence of Croce --; The theory of absolute presuppositions --; Causality and the idea of nature --; The idea of history --; VIII. Phenomenology and existentialism. The foundation in Prentano and Husserl --; Maurice Merleau-Ponty : His account of perception ; On the world as perceived --; The early work of Heidegger and Sartre --; IX. Later developments. Linguistic philosophy : J.L. Austin ; Noam Chomsky --; W.V. Quine --; Nelson Goodman --; Michael Drummett --; Essentialism; 2; b
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