{"product_id":"imitation-of-rigor-an-alternative-history-of-analytic-philosophy-hardcover","title":"Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.L. Austin has written of \"the blinding veil of ease and obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful act\". By revisiting a classic \"small metaphysics\" puzzle drawn from physics that launched a thousand ships of grander philosophizing, \u003cem\u003eImitation of Rigor\u003c\/em\u003e employs recent insights into the architectures of effective reasoning as a means of explicating how Austin's covert \"mechanisms\" operate in concrete terms. By these means, the book attempts to reconnect analytic philosophy with the evolving practicalities within science from which many of its grander concerns originally sprang. In doing so, it provides an \"alternative history\" of how the subject might have developed had the diagnostic insights of its philosopher\/scientist forebears (e.g. Heinrich Hertz and Ernst Mach) not been cast aside in the vain pursuit of inappropriate standards of \"ersatz rigor\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Wilson, \u003cem\u003eDistinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and the author of \u003cem\u003e Physics Avoidance \u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2017) and \u003cem\u003e Wandering Significance \u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2006). He has written widely on how our categories for describing the large-scale world around us have progressively evolved, \u003cbr\u003ewithin both science and our ordinary ways of speaking. He also supervises The North American Traditions Collection of Folk Music. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462120161458,"sku":"9780192896469","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/26154ff8fc6ca38857fabfba8971df12.webp?v=1778962655","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/imitation-of-rigor-an-alternative-history-of-analytic-philosophy-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}