Philosophy and Ordinary Language
The Bent and Genius of our Tongue
2nd Edition
Published on 11. January 2013
288 pages
978-1-134-35213-5 (ISBN)
Description
What is philosophy about and what are its methods? Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language. Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language, then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this isn't true.
Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin, Wittgenstein, and Quine, this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.
Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin, Wittgenstein, and Quine, this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-35213-5 (9781134352135)
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Person
Oswald Hanfling is Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy at the Open University. He is the author of several books including Logical Positivism, The Quest for Meaning, Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy, and Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life (Routledge 2002).
Content
Introduction; Part 1 The philosophy of 'what we say'; Chapter 1 Socrates and the quest for definitions; Chapter 2 Austin; Chapter 3 Wittgenstein; Chapter 4 'What we say'; Chapter 5 What is wrong with the paradigm case argument?; Chapter 6 Knowledge and the uses of 'knowledge'; Chapter 7 The paradox of scepticism; Part 2 The philosophy of 'what we say'; Chapter 8 Drawing the curtain of words; Chapter 9 Language remade; Chapter 10 Grice; Chapter 11 Quine and the unity of science; Chapter 12 Scientific realism; Chapter 13 'Folk psychology' and the language of science;
