The Pursuit of Philosophy: Some Cambridge Perspectives

Eleven Cambridge academics approach philosophy from various fields, to broaden its practical and theoretical applications.

Guides a tour through various academic departments--including history, political science, classics, law, and English--to ferret out the philosophy in their syllabi, and to show philosophy's symbiotic relationship with other fields Provides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundred years after the "founding fathers" of analytic philosophy reigned at Cambridge Offers useful new directions for the study and application of philosophy, and how other fields can influence them

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118295188
• ISBN13: 9781118295182
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 10.2"