Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy

by Mark Wilson

J.L. Austin has written of "the blinding veil of ease and obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful act". By revisiting a classic "small metaphysics" puzzle drawn from physics that launched a thousand ships of grander philosophizing, Imitation of Rigor employs recent insights into the architectures of effective reasoning as a means of explicating how Austin's covert "mechanisms" operate in concrete terms. By these means, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192896466
• ISBN13: 9780192896469
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"