The future for philosophy
By: edited by Brian Leiter.
Contributors: Leiter, Brian.
Publisher: Clarendon; Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: "Where does philosophy, the oldest academic subject, stand at the beginning of the new millennium? This volume brings together leading figures from most major branches of the discipline to offer answers." "Distinguished philosophers from Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States aim not only to stimulate philosophical debate, but to introduce those in cognate disciplines - biology, classics, economics, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, mathematics, physics, political science, and psychology, among others - to what is happening in contemporary philosophy. In a substantial introduction, the editor gives an overview of the state of philosophy today and helps orient non-philosophers."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Brian Leiter; title: Ancient philosophy for the twenty-first century / Julia Annas; title: Philosophy and history in the history of modern philosophy / Don Garrett; title: The hermeneutics of suspicion : recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud / Brian Leiter; title: Past the linguistic turn? / Timothy Williamson; title: The mind-body problem at century's turn / Jaegwon Kim; title: The representational character of experience / David J. Chalmers; title: The need for social epistemology / Alvin Goldman; title: The ends of the sciences / Philip Kitcher; title: From causation to explanation and back / Nancy Cartwright; title: Normative ethics : back to the future / Thomas Hurka; title: Toward an ethics that inhabits the world / Peter Railton; title: Projection and objectification / Rae Langton; title: Existentialism, quietism, and the role of philosophy / Philip Pettit.