Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School (eBook)

Preempting the Problem of Intentionality

Lisa Landoe Hedrick (Autor)

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2021
222 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4658-3 (ISBN)

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Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality proposes a revisionary history of the relationship between Alfred North Whitehead and analytic philosophy, as well as a constructive proposal for how thinking with Whitehead can help disabuse analytic philosophy of the problem of intentionality. Lisa Landoe Hedrick defines ';analytic' philosophy as primarily the intellectual tradition that runs from Gottlob Frege to Bertrand Russell to Wilfrid Sellars, or, geographically speaking, from Vienna to Cambridge to Pittsburgh between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As key members of the Pittsburgh School of philosophy, Robert Brandom and John McDowell pick up the Sellarsian project of reconciling nature and normativity in different ways, yet each of them presupposes a problematic relationship between language and the world precisely bequeathed to them by an implicit metaphysics of subjecthood that characterized analytic thinkers of the early twentieth century. Hedrick both investigates Whitehead's published and archived critiques of early analytic thoughtas an extension of a wider critique of modern philosophyand employs Whitehead to reimagine nature and normativity after the problem of intentionality by way of his aesthetics of symbolism. This book thereby builds upon a burgeoning effort among philosophers to interface process and analytic thought, but it is the first to focus on contemporary analytic thinkers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Whitehead Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: aesthetics of symbolism • Alfred North Whitehead • Analytic • Analytic philosophy • Early Analytic Philosophy • Epistemology • History of Philosophy • John McDowell • Metaphysics • Nature • normativity • Ontology • Philosophy of Language • Process Metaphysics • Process Philosophy • Robert Brandom • Theology • Whitehead • Wilfrid Sellars
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-4658-9 / 1793646589
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-4658-3 / 9781793646583