The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015

Leading experts from the diverse fields of philosophy explain and illuminate the most important philosophical developments since World War II.

Kelly Becker (Edited by), Iain D. Thomson (Edited by)

9781107173033, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 November 2019

902 pages, 2 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 4.6 cm, 1.5 kg

This landmark achievement in philosophical scholarship brings together leading experts from the diverse traditions of Western philosophy in a common quest to illuminate and explain the most important philosophical developments since the Second World War. Focusing particularly (but not exclusively) on those insights and movements that most profoundly shaped the English-speaking philosophical world, this volume bridges the traditional divide between 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy while also reaching beyond it. The result is an authoritative guide to the most important advances and transformations that shaped philosophy during this tumultuous and fascinating period of history, developments that continue to shape the field today. It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary philosophy of all levels and will prove indispensable for any serious philosophical collection.

Introduction. Philosophical reflections on the recent history of philosophy
Part I. Analytic Philosophy: Section 1. Language, Mind, Epistemology: 1. Analytic philosophy of language: from first philosophy to foundations of linguistic science
2. Analyticity: the Carnap-Quine debate and its aftermath
3. Philosophy of linguistics
4. Varieties of externalism, linguistic and mental
5. An analytic-hermeneutic history of consciousness
6. Computational philosophies of mind
7. Philosophy of action
8. Contemporary responses to radical scepticism
9. Post-Gettier epistemology
Section 2. Logic, Metaphysics, Science: 10. Logic in the second half of the twentieth century
11. (Re)discovering ground
12. Lewis' theories of causation and their influence
13. Naturalism from the mid-twentieth century to the present: Quine's 'Hegelianism', Armstrong's empiricism, and the rise of liberal naturalism
14. The history of philosophy of science
15. A modern synthesis of philosophy and biology
Section 3. Analytic Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy: 16. The revival of virtue ethics
17. Kantian ethics
18. Consequentialism and its critics
19. The rediscovery of metanormativity: from Prichard to Raz by way of Falk
20. Constitutivism
21. John Rawls's political liberalism
22. The twilight of the liberal social contract: on the reception of Rawlsian political liberalism
23. Feminist philosophy and real politics: Susan Moller Okin on 'multiculturalism'
Section 4. Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion: 24. Analytic aesthetics and philosophy of art
25. Philosophy of religion
Part II. Continental Philosophy: Section 5. Central Movements and Issues: 26. Existentialism
27. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on freedom
28. Heidegger, critical theory, and the critique of technology
29. Authenticity and social critique
30. Hermeneutics in post-war Continental European philosophy
31. Feminist philosophy since 1945: the evolution of feminist materialism
32. Philosophies of difference
Section 6. Continental Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy: 33. The concept of autonomy in the history of the Frankfurt School
34. Emerging ethics
35. Leo Strauss: political philosophy as first philosophy
36. Critical environmental philosophy
37. Philosophy of technology
38. Philosophy of education and the 'education of reason': post-foundational approaches through Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault
Section 7. Continental Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion: 39. The bearing of film on philosophy
40. Aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and the avant-garde
41. Continental philosophy of religion
Part III. Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy: Section 8. Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers: 42. Rethinking the analytic/Continental divide
43. Phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy
44. Phenomenology meets philosophy of mind and language
45. The impact of pragmatism
46. Unruly readers, unruly words: Wittgenstein and language
47. Anglo-American existential phenomenology
48. A conceptual genealogy of the Pittsburgh School: between Kant and Hegel
Section 9. Comparative Philosophy: 49. Authenticity and the right to philosophy: on Latin American philosophy's great debate
50. The East in the West: Chinese, Japanese, and Indian philosophy in the twentieth century
51. Jewish philosophy and the Shoah Claire Katz
Part IV. Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy: 52. Developments and debates in the historiography of philosophy.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]