Redirecting philosophy Book

In a Contemporary Climate that Dismisses Philosophy as an Outmoded and increasingly useless discipline, philosophers have been forced to reconsider much that they have taken for granted. Redirecting Philosophy, Hugo Meynell's reassessment of the foundations and nature of knowledge, is a stunning response to that demand.This illuminating study surveys the views of the most influential contemporary thinkers in the English-speaking world (Wittgenstein, Strawson, Searle, Popper, Feyerabend, Kuhn, Rorty) and in continental philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas). In setting those views against the background of classical philosophy, Meynell offers fresh perspectives on the basic problems that occupy philosophers today -- problems such as scepticism, truth, experience, metaphysics, the place of science, method, power, and humane values. An insightful and fully up-to-date guide to philosophy and the theory of science, Meynell's book will be of outstanding value as a course book in both graduate and undergraduate studies.