Bibliograph

Empty ideas, a critique of analytic philosophy, Peter Unger

Type

Label

Empty ideas, a critique of analytic philosophy, Peter Unger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Empty ideas

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

890508209

Responsibility statement

Peter Unger

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

a critique of analytic philosophy

Summary

During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly. This book lays crucial challenges at the door of mainstream analytic philosophy, for Unger argues persuasively that (contrary to its explicit self-conception), a great deal of recent philosophy has been concerned with merely conceptual issues - nothing 'concretely substantial'

Target audience

specialized

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