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Product Description: A new paperback edition of a hugely popular title whose hardback edition sold out in four months. Accomplished and prolific author and philosopher Avrum Stroll believes that although we are right to believe in the authority and power of science, there are many issues that neither science nor any other discipline will resolve...read more

Hardcover:

9781851683406 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, August 15, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: There are some problems that neither scientists nor anyone else will ever solve, argues author Avrum Stroll in this challenging new book.

Paperback:

9781851684489 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, April 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A new paperback edition of a hugely popular title whose hardback edition sold out in four months.

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By Avrum Stroll (editor)

Hardcover:

9780313209673 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 1, 1979, cover price $35.00

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Informal Philosophy provides an original look at how we should understand and teach philosophy. Avrum Stroll persuasively argues that philosophy should be evaluated using its own methodology and should not merely mimic formal scientific analysis, because while modern science does inform our philosophical views about man and his place in nature, it does not solve philosophical problems. Stroll effectively makes the case for the use of informal philosophy_that is, an approach guided by common sense, appealing to ordinary discourse, and employing a context-driven line of inquiry_to answer philosophical problems.

Hardcover:

9780742570276 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 28, 2009, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Informal Philosophy provides an original look at how we should understand and teach philosophy.

Miscellaneous:

9780742570290 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 16, 2009, cover price $39.95

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Hardcover:

9780195084887 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 3, 1994, cover price $135.00

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Product Description: The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities. In Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence, A. P. Martinich and Avrum Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference and its relation to truth...read more

Hardcover:

9780742548336 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 30, 2007, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

Paperback:

9780742548343 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 30, 2007, cover price $37.00

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Product Description: philosophy

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9780030617010 | Holt Rinehart & Winston, February 1, 1984, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: philosophy

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9780385425339 | 2 rev sub edition (Three Rivers Pr, August 1, 1993), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: This lucid, informal, and very accessible history of Western thought takes the unique approach of interpreting skepticism—i.e., doubts about knowledge claims and the criteria for making such claims—as an important stimulus for the development of philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781573929363 | Prometheus Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $38.99 | About this edition: This lucid, informal, and very accessible history of Western thought takes the unique approach of interpreting skepticism—i.

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Product Description: Avrum Stroll accepts the ancient tradition that one of the tasks of philosophy is to give an accurate account of the world's features, both animate and inanimate. But, he contends, because these features are inexhaustibly complex, no single theory or conceptual model can provide a complete account...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780262193917 | Bradford Books, December 5, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Avrum Stroll accepts the ancient tradition that one of the tasks of philosophy is to give an accurate account of the world's features, both animate and inanimate.

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Hardcover:

9780816616930 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $39.95

Paperback:

9780816616947 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $26.00

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Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to knowledge -it also has humanistic ties to the great thinkers and philosophical problems of the past. Moreover, no single feature characterizes the activities of analytic philosophers. Undaunted by these difficulties, Avrum Stroll investigates the "family resemblances" between that impressive breed of thinkers known as analytic philosophers. In so doing, he grapples with the point and purpose of doing philosophy: What is philosophy? What are its tasks? What kind of information, illumination, and understanding is it supposed to provide if it is not one of the natural sciences? Imbued with clarity, liveliness, and philosophical sophistication, Stroll´s book presents a synoptic picture of the main developments in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics in the past century. It does this by concentrating on the individual thinkers whose ideas have been most influential. Major themes in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy include: · the innovation of mathematical logic by Gottlob Frege at the close of the nineteenth century and its independent development by Bertrand Russell; · the impact of advancements in science on the world of philosophy and its importance for understanding such doctrines as logical positivism, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and eliminative materialism; · the refusal by such thinkers as Wittgenstein, Moore, and Austin to treat logic as an ideal language superior to natural languages; and · a conjecture about which, if any, of the philosophers discussed in the book will enter the pantheon of philosophical gods. Along the way, Stroll also covers the theories of Rudolf Carnap, W. V. O. Quine, Gilbert Ryle, J. L. Austin, Hilary Putnam, Saul Kripke, John Searle, Ruth Marcus, and Patricia and Paul Churchland. Stroll´s approach to his subject treats the critical movements in analytic philosophy in terms of the philosophers who defined them. The notoriously complex realm of analytic philosophy emerges less as an abstract enterprise than as a domain of personalities and their competing methods and arguments. The book´s inventive presentations of complex logical doctrines relate them to the traditional problems of philosophy, seeking the continuity between them rather than polemical distinctions so as to bring the true differences of their respective achievements into sharper focus. (Journal of the History of Philosophy) (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780231112208 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems.

Paperback:

9780231112215 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $29.00

In this new book, acclaimed scholar Avrum Stroll introduces the legendary philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, first through his unconventional lifestyle, and secondly through Wittgenstein's own greatest works.

Paperback:

9781851684861 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, January 31, 2007, cover price $14.95
9781851682935 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this new book, acclaimed scholar Avrum Stroll introduces the legendary philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, first through his unconventional lifestyle, and secondly through Wittgenstein's own greatest works.

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