Debating the State of Philosophy
Subtitle: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski
Contributors: Jozef Niznik (Editor); John T. Sanders (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: October 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780275958350
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Methodology; Philosophy / General; History & Surveys - Modern; 20th century; Congresses; Forecasting; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy
First sentence: One way to deal with the rather unspecific topic of the "present state of philosophy" is to focus on an obvious feature of contemporary debates-the contextualist mood that prevails in most of the debates, wether in moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of language, or the philosophy of science.