TY - JOUR
AU1 - Carter, William R.
AB -  H A 0 WANG, Beyond Analytic Philosophy, MIT Press, 1986. The title of Professor Wang’s book is likely to mislead, since the author’s critical sights are set upon something called “analytic empiricism” and not - a different, if somewhat ill defined, target - upon analytic philosophy. (Wang regards with favor the “famous work of John Rawls in political philosophy”, which he counts as analytic philosophy but “definitely not” analytic empiricism.) The enemy camp is populated notably by Carnap and Quine. Wang argues that analytic empiricism the merger of Carnap’s logical positivism and Quine’s “logical negativism” - is incapable of offering an adequate account of logic or mathematics. The argument for this is presented at the outset. Much of what follows consists of reflections upon topics relating to the work of Russell, Wittgenstein, C. I. Lewis, Carnap, Reichenbach, Quine, Godel, and other luminaries. The final chapter of the book consists of “metaphilosophical” observations concerning the present state and proper goals of philosophy. Aside from his attack upon the views of Carnap and Quine concerning mathematics, Wang expresses surprising pessimism concerning contemporary (analytic?) philosophy, agreeing with Richard Rorty that the model of the philosopher as “scholar cum sage” has been 
TI - HAO WANG, Beyond Analytic Philosophy
JF - Metaphilosophy
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.1988.tb00711.x
DA - 1988-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/hao-wang-beyond-analytic-philosophy-r6an7WIyRi
SP - 171
VL - 19
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -