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Introduction xiii
1 Bentham to Nietzsche 1
Bentham's Utilitarianism 1
The Development of John Stuart Mill 5
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of the Will 13
Ethics and Religion in Kierkegaard 16
Dialectical Materialism 18
Darwin and Natural Selection 24
John Henry Newman 28
Nietzsche 30
2 Peirce to Strawson 34
C. S. Peirce and Pragmatism 34
The Logicism of Frege 37
Psychology and Pragmatism in William James 43
British Idealism and its Critics 47
Russell on Mathematics, Logic, and Language 50
Wittgenstein's Tractatus 54
Logical Positivism 58
Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy 60
Analytic Philosophy after Wittgenstein 63
3 Freud to Derrida 72
Freud and Psychoanalysis 72
Husserl's Phenomenology 78
The Existentialism of Heidegger 83
The Existentialism of Sartre 87
Jacques Derrida 90
4 Logic 97
Mill's Empiricist Logic 97
Frege's Refoundation of Logic 100
Induction and Abduction in Peirce 107
The Saga of Principia Mathematica 110
Modern Modal Logic 116
5 Language 121
Frege on Sense and Reference 121
The Pragmatists on Language and Truth 126
Russell's Theory of Descriptions 129
The Picture Theory of the Proposition 132
Language-Games and Private Languages 137
6 Epistemology 144
Two Eloquent Empiricists 144
Peirce on the Methods of Science 150
Frege on Logic, Psychology, and Epistemology 155
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description 160
Husserl's Epoche 162
Wittgenstein on Certainty 165
7 Metaphysics 169
Varieties of Idealism 169
Metaphysics and Teleology 174
Realism vs. Nominalism 178
First, Second, and Third in Peirce 181
The Metaphysics of Logical Atomism 185
Bad and Good Metaphysics 187
8Philosophy of Mind 192
Bentham on Intention and Motive 192
Reason, Understanding, and Will 195
Experimental vs. Philosophical Psychology 198
The Freudian Unconscious 202
Philosophical Psychology in the Tractatus 207
Intentionality 209
Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mind 212
9 Ethics 220
The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number 220
Modifications of Utilitarianism 225
Schopenhauer on Renunciation 228
The Moral Ascent in Kierkegaard 233
Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of Values 237
Analytic Ethics 242
10 Aesthetics 250
The Beautiful and the Sublime 250
The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer 255
Kierkegaard on Music 258
Nietzsche on Tragedy 260
Art and Morality 263
Art for Art's Sake 265
11 Political Philosophy 269
Utilitarianism and Liberalism 269
Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer on Women 276
Marx on Capital and Labour 280
Closed and Open Societies 286
12 God 291
Faith vs. Alienation 291
The Theism of John Stuart Mill 297
Creation and Evolution 299
Newman's Philosophy of Religion 305
The Death of God and the Survival of Religion 309
Freud on Religious Illusion 314
Philosophical Theology after Wittgenstein 315
Chronology 319
Abbreviations and Conventions 321
Bibliography 327
List of Illustrations 335
Index 339
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reviewed Philosophy in the Modern World: A New History of Western Philosophy, Vol. 4 on July 25, 2013
Philosophy in the Modern World
I honestly wouldn't know to begin with a project like this, which seems to make life doubly difficult for itself by electing to treat the continental and analytic schools in conjunction rather than in isolation. I probably wouldn't end with a philosopher I so disdained as much as Anthony Kenny clearly disdains Derrida, though perhaps this is his way of communicating a certain pessimism about the future of philosophy. I recall a (possibly apocryphal) story about Derrida's selection for an honorary degree at the University of Cambridge, only for the proposal to be nixed by its own philosophy department, who were so incensed that Derrida should even be considered a proper philosopher, much less one recognised outside his own circle. It is easier to believe after after read Kenny's account.
His best section is, understandably, on Wittgenstein, a philosopher whom Kenny has focused the bulk of his study. But the chronological half of the book is usually lucid by the standards of the genre, and where this lucidity breaks down I'm inclined to place the blame at the feet of Hegel et al for coming up with the theories in the first place. The thematic chapters (or those that I read) I found harder to follow, and some were predominantly focused on questions I hadn't considered - the chapter on Philosophy of Mind had much to say on intentionality (for me difficult to distinguish from a problem of semantics) and little on the renewed materialism of neuroscience, but possibly those with more philosophical training than I (that is to say, anyone with any philosophical training at all) may agree with Kenny's approach.
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