How theology shaped twentieth-century philosophy / Frank B. Farrell, Purchase College, SUNY.
Medieval theology had an important influence on later philosophy which is visible in the empiricisms of Russell, Carnap, and Quine. Other thinkers, including McDowell, Kripke, and Dennett, show how we can overcome the distorting effects of that theological ecosystem on our accounts of the nature of...
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Table of Contents:
- The thinning out of the world
- Empiricism and theology
- John McDowell : rejecting the defensive move inward
- Aristotle Redivivus : on Saul Kripke
- Hegel, theology, and Pippin's reading of Hegel
- Walter Benjamin : incarnation or radical incommensurability?
- Rolling back the Protestant Reformation : Wittgenstein and Dennett
- Mcdowell (II) : active and passive faculties and the theological framework
- Derrida, the religion of the sublime, and the messianic
- Literature today and the sublime absence of aesthetic experience
- Where do we go from here?