Fifteen Lectures on Contemporary British and American Philosophy

Introduction This book is Professor Zhao Dunhua's original academic monograph on British and American philosophy. The book is divided into three parts and fifteen lectures. The chapter on linguistic analytic philosophy respectively tells the birth of logical analytic philosophy, the lives of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, their thoughts on linguistic logic, and logical empiricism. The philosophy of science chapter talks about the rise of philosophy of science, Popper's philosophy of science and its promotion, and the scientific worldview theory. The political philosophy chapter talks about the philosophical tradition of liberalism, Rawls's political philosophy, Rawls's moral philosophy, criticism of liberal political philosophy, and the debate between political liberalism and Habermas-Rawls. This book combines the essence of the three disciplines of contemporary British and American philosophy into one book in a concise, comprehensive and profound way. It is a rare introductory book for philosophy lovers and philosophy students to understand British and American philosophy.