Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language

by Quentin Smith

This book is the first to provide a critical history of analytic philosophy from its inception in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Quentin Smith focuses on the connections between the four leading movements in analytic philosophy-logical realism, logical positivism, ordinary language analysis, and linguistic essentialism-and corresponding twentieth-century theories of ethics and of religion. Through a critical evaluation of each school's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B003HC2U2E
• ISBN13: 9780300062120
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"