Philosophy outside-in : a critique of academic reason / [electronic resource]
Norris, Christopher,1947-author.
Christopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that analytic philosophy has been conducted over the past 25 years. In doing so, he offers an alternative to what he sees as an over-specialisation of a lot of recent academic work. Arguing that analytic philosophy has led to a narrowing of sights to the point where other approaches that might be more productive are blocked from view, he goes against the grain to claim that Continental philosophy holds the resources for a creative renewal of analytic thought.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
1. How not to defeat scepticism: why anti-realism won't do the trick -- 2. Great philosophy: discovery, invention and the uses of error -- 3. Under which king, Bezonian? Experimental philosophy versus thought experiment -- 4. Outside the box: on the 'extended mind' hypothesis -- 5. Inaesthetics and transitory ontology: the case of political song -- 6. Speculative realism: an interim report -- 7. Provoking philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida.
Christopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that analytic philosophy has been conducted over the past 25 years. In doing so, he offers an alternative to what he sees as an over-specialisation of a lot of recent academic work. Arguing that analytic philosophy has led to a narrowing of sights to the point where other approaches that might be more productive are blocked from view, he goes against the grain to claim that Continental philosophy holds the resources for a creative renewal of analytic thought.
Specialism (Philosophy)
Analysis (Philosophy)
Philosophy.
Anti-realism.
Knowledge, Theory of.