Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays

by Scott Soames

Book Overview

In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's most vigorous philosophical tradition. The central essay chronicles how analytic philosophy developed in the United States out of American pragmatism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069117640X
• ISBN13: 9780691176406
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"