24 x 16 cm. Hardcover with dust jacket, xiv, 258 pages. Text in English. Fine condition. See picture. Provocative critique arguing that much of contemporary analytic philosophy consists of "empty ideas"-conceptual concerns devoid of substantive claims about concrete reality-and urging a return to substantial philosophical thinking grounded in metaphysics and qualitative experience. 520g.

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Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy.

Publisher

Oxford University Press, New York

Publication Date

2014

Language

English

ISBN 10

0199330816

ISBN 13

9780199330812

Binding

Hardcover

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Offers a powerful critique of contemporary metaphysics and epistemology including the work of such brilliant thinkers as Saul Kripke, Donald Davidson, David Lewis and Hilary Putnam

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Peter Unger is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of five previous self-standing books, all currently available from the Oxford University Press: Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism; Philosophical Relativity; Identity, Consciousness and Value; Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence; and All the Power in the World. As well, Oxford has published his Philosophical Papers, a two-volume collection of shorter works previously published elsewhere.

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