The Dialogue of Reason: Analysis of Analytical Philosophy (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Softcover

"Insightful, well argued, clear, and informative....Cohen has developed a coherent, defensible, and versatile characterization of analytical philosophy."--The Philosophical Review "A very good book, an up-to-date account of what occurred and is occurring in analytical philosophy."--International Studies in Philosophy "Cohen offers an interesting account of philosophy as the attempt to systematize and organize one's intuitions."--Times Literary Supplement "Refreshing and closely-reasoned...he does 'analysis' with intelligence, originality, rare ratiocinate energy and intensity, and considerable interdisciplinary relevance."--Review of Metaphysics "Insightful, well argued, clear, and informative....Cohen has developed a coherent, defensible, and versatile characterization of analytical philosophy."--The Philosophical Review "A very good book, an up-to-date account of what occurred and is occurring in analytical philosophy."--International Studies in Philosophy "Cohen offers an interesting account of philosophy as the attempt to systematize and organize one's intuitions."--Times Literary Supplement "Refreshing and closely-reasoned...he does 'analysis' with intelligence, originality, rare ratiocinate energy and intensity, and considerable interdisciplinary relevance."--Review of Metaphysics "Insightful, well argued, clear, and informative....Cohen has developed a coherent, defensible, and versatile characterization of analytical philosophy."--The Philosophical Review "A very good book, an up-to-date account of what occurred and is occurring in analytical philosophy."--International Studies in Philosophy "Cohen offers an interesting account of philosophy as the attempt to systematize and organize one's intuitions."--Times Literary Supplement "Refreshing and closely-reasoned...he does 'analysis' with intelligence, originality, rare ratiocinate energy and intensity, and considerable interdisciplinary relevance."--Review of Metaphysics "Insightful, well argued, clear, and informative....Cohen has developed a coherent, defensible, and versatile characterization of analytical philosophy."--The Philosophical Review "A very good book, an up-to-date account of what occurred and is occurring in analytical philosophy."--International Studies in Philosophy "Cohen offers an interesting account of philosophy as the attempt to systematize and organize one's intuitions."--Times Literary Supplement "Refreshing and closely-reasoned...he does 'analysis' with intelligence, originality, rare ratiocinate energy and intensity, and considerable interdisciplinary relevance."--Review of Metaphysics

Analytical philosophy now embraces a much greater variety of topic and divergence of opinion than it once did. What presuppositions of relevance are implicit in its dialogue, what patterns of reasoning does it rely on, and why is consensus so hard to achieve? The aim of this text is to resolve these questions in a way that also illuminates several important issues of philosophical substance, such as the question of whether the linguistic analysis of thought should be replaced by a computational one.