Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

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This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions―one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems. Rather than rehearsing the causes of the divide, contributors draw upon the problems, methods, and results of both traditions to show what post-divide philosophical work looks like in practice. Ranging from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to political philosophy and ethics, the papers gathered here bring into mutual dialogue a wide range of recent and contemporary thinkers, and confront leading problems common to both traditions, including methodology, ontology, meaning, truth, values, and personhood. Collectively, these essays show that it is already possible to foresee a future for philosophical thought and practice no longer determined neither as "analytic" nor as "continental," but, instead, as a pluralistic synthesis of what is best in both traditions. The new work assembled here shows how the problems, projects, and ambitions of twentieth-century philosophy are already being taken up and productively transformed to produce new insights, questions, and methods for philosophy today. Cover Title Copyright Contents 1 Introduction: Contemporary Philosophy as Synthetic Philosophy PART I Methodologies 2 The Emergence of the Concept of the Analytic Tradition as a Form of Philosophical Self-Consciousness 3 Philosophy as Articulation: Austin and Deleuze on Conceptual Analysis 4 Conceptual Genealogy for Analytic Philosophy PART II Truth and Meaning 5 Truth and Epoché: The Semantic Conception of Truth in Phenomenology 6 From Difference-Maker to Truthmaker (and Back) 7 Reasons, Epistemic Truth, and History: Foucault’s Criticism of Putnam’s Anti-Realism 8 Metaphor without Meanings: Derrida and Davidson as Complementary PART III Metaphysics and Ontology 9 Why Is Time Different from Space? 10 Wittgenstein Reads Heidegger, Heidegger Reads Wittgenstein: Thinking Language Bounding World 11 The Answer to the Question of Being PART IV Values, Personhood, and Agency 12 Relativism and Recognition 13 Revolutionary Actions and Events 14 Varieties of Shared Intentionality: Tomasello and Classical Phenomenology List of Contributors Index