1st Edition

Philosophical Tasks An Introduction to Some Aims and Methods in Recent Philosophy

By Graham Bird Copyright 1972
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1972, Philosophical Tasks was written to identify and examine some central themes in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. The book explores the claim that philosophy is essentially linguistic, and considers in particular such topics as philosophy and science, fact and language, conceptual analysis, first- and second-order tasks, scepticism, ordinary language, and... Read more
Preface; 1: The Revolutionary Background; 2: Philosophy and Science; 3: Philosophy and History; 4: Fact and Language; 5: Language and Perception; 6: Scepticism; 7: Ordinary Language; 8: Conceptual Schemes and Categorical Frameworks; Bibliography; Index

Biography

Graham Bird