Philosophy and Ordinary Language : The Bent and Genius of Our Tongue.

By: Hanfling, OswaldMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy SerPublisher: London : Routledge, 1999Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203003510Subject(s): Ordinary-language philosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philosophy and Ordinary Language : The Bent and Genius of Our TongueDDC classification: 149.9/4 LOC classification: B828.36.H3Online resources: Click to View
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Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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