Postanalytic and Metacontinental Crossing Philosophical Divides

by Reynolds, Jack; Chase, James; Mares, Ed; Williams, James

• ISBN13: 9780826424419
• ISBN10: 0826424414
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-03
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

An important and original collection of essays examining the relationship between Analytic and Continental philosophy.

Author Biography

Jack Reynolds is a Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia and author of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio UP, 2004) and Understanding Existentialism (Acumen, 2006) and co-editor of Understanding Derrida (Continuum, 2004). James Chase is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. James Williams is Professor of European Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK and author of seven books on Deleuze, Lyotard and poststructuralism, including Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide (EUP 2008). Edwin Mares is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand. His previous publications include Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Interpretation (CUP, 2004) and Realism and Anti-Realism (Acumen 2007, with Stuart Brock).

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Postanalytic and Metacontinental Philosophy	p. 1
'Postanalytic' Philosophy: Overcoming the Divide?	p. 7
Reason and Argument
The Fate of Transcendental Reasoning in Contemporary Philosophy	p. 27
Logic and Metaphysics: Dummett Meets Heidegger	p. 53
Argument All the Way Down: The Demanding Discipline of Non-Argumento-Centric Modes of Philosophy	p. 71
Analytic Philosophy and Dialogic Conservatism	p. 85
Mind
Cartesian Echoes in the Philosophy of Mind: The Case of John Searle	p. 107
When the Twain Meet: Could the Study of Mind be a Meeting of Minds?	p. 125
Meaning, Expression and Aesthetics
Expressivism in Brandom and Taylor	p. 145
Wittgenstein as Trans-Analytic-Continental Philosopher	p. 157
Disenfranchising Film? On the Analytic-Cognitivist Turn in Film Theory	p. 173
Metaphysics and Mathematics
The Possibility of German Idealism after Analytic Philosophy: McDowell, Brandom and Beyond	p. 191
On the Problem of Selection in Events for Deleuze and Davidson	p. 203
Virtual Platonisms: Lautman and Gödel	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 251
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