Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

Eminent philosopher Avrum Stroll presents an authoritative and accessiblehistory of analytic philosophy in the past century from Russell andWittgenstein to Sear... » 

Eminent philosopher Avrum Stroll presents an authoritative and accessiblehistory of analytic philosophy in the past century from Russell andWittgenstein to Searle and Kripke. Stroll offers precisely the sort of crispnarrative account readers require to navigate the difficulties of modernanalytic philosophy. Covering the evolution of logic ethics epistemology andmetaphysics Strolls work weaves together the strains of the past centurysphilosophical insights to produce a lively and sophisticated work that willcaptivate general readers and scholars alike. Strolls approach to his subjecttreats the critical movements in analytic philosophy in terms of thephilosophers who defined them. In his capable hands the notoriously complexrealm of analytic philosophy emerges less as an abstract enterprise than as adomair of personalities and their competing methods and arguments. «