Pseudo-Problems
How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done
Published on 22. January 2002
304 pages
978-1-134-86852-0 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1993. Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? Does time flow at an even rate? These are just two of the questions that won't be answered in Pseudo-Problems. This book explains how problems are dissolved rather than solved. Roy Sorenson takes the most important and interesting examples from one hundred years of analytic philosophy (and the odd one from the centuries before) to consolidate a new theory of dissolution. Pseudo-Problems is a fast-moving, fascinating alternative history of twentieth-century analytic philosophy, and a fine example of what philosophical analysis should be. Not least, it is an important contribution to the debates about creativity and problem solving.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,48 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-86852-0 (9781134868520)
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12/2021
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09/1993
1st Edition
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€200.89
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Person
Sorensen, Roy A.
Content
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Question quality control, 2. Get 'real'!, 3. Problems with 'pseudo-problems', 4. The soft consensual underbelly of dispute, 5. #?'!+@me?an$?@ing~l$ ss*ne$$?, 6. The devil's volleyball, 7. Popped presuppositions, 8. The unity of opposites, 9. Forging the stream of consciousness, 10. Beyond our ken, 11. The edge of reason, 12. Undermining the undeserving, 13. Enlightened tasks, 14. Depth, Bibliography, Index
