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- catalog abstract "All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understanding which philosophy seeks to achieve. In this book, one of the most distinguished of living philosophers, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader, sets out to explain and illustrate a certain conception of the nature of analytical philosophy. Strawson draws on his many years of teaching at Oxford University, during which he refined and developed what he regards as the most productive route to understanding the fundamental structure of human thinking. Among the distinctive features of his exposition are the displacement of an older, reductive conception of philosophical method (the ideal of "analyzing" complex ideas into simpler elements) in favor of elucidating the interconnections between the complex but irreducible notions which form the basic structure of our thinking; and the demonstration that the three traditionally distinguished departments of metaphysics (ontology), epistemology, and logic are but three aspects of one unified enquiry. Strawson has produced an elegant work that will be invaluable to students and stimulating for professional philosophers and general readers alike.".
- catalog contributor b3612291.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understanding which philosophy seeks to achieve. In this book, one of the most distinguished of living philosophers, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader, sets out to explain and illustrate a certain conception of the nature of analytical philosophy. Strawson draws on his many years of teaching at Oxford University, during which he refined and developed what he regards as the most productive route to understanding the fundamental structure of human thinking. Among the distinctive features of his exposition are the displacement of an older, reductive conception of philosophical method (the ideal of "analyzing" complex ideas into simpler elements) in favor of elucidating the interconnections between the complex but irreducible notions which form the basic structure of our thinking; and the demonstration that the three traditionally distinguished departments of metaphysics (ontology), epistemology, and logic are but three aspects of one unified enquiry. Strawson has produced an elegant work that will be invaluable to students and stimulating for professional philosophers and general readers alike.".
- catalog description "Analytical philosophy: two analogies -- Reduction or connection? Basic concepts -- Moore and Quine -- Logic, epistemology, and ontology -- Sensible experience and material objects -- Classical empiricism. The inner and the outer. Action and society -- Truth and knowledge -- Meaning and understanding: structural semantics -- Causation and explanation -- Freedom and necessity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 144 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198751176 :".
- catalog identifier "0198751184 (pbk.) :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "100 20".
- catalog subject "B29 .S8216 1992".
- catalog subject "Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Analytical philosophy: two analogies -- Reduction or connection? Basic concepts -- Moore and Quine -- Logic, epistemology, and ontology -- Sensible experience and material objects -- Classical empiricism. The inner and the outer. Action and society -- Truth and knowledge -- Meaning and understanding: structural semantics -- Causation and explanation -- Freedom and necessity.".
- catalog title "Analysis and metaphysics : an introduction to philosophy / P.F. Strawson.".
- catalog type "text".