Philosophy and Ordinary Language

<p>What is philosophy about and what are its methods? <em>Philosophy and Ordinary Language</em> is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language which to a large extent means <em>ordinary</em> language. Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this isn't true.<br>Hanfling a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy covers a wide range of topics including scepticism and the definition of knowledge free will empiricism folk psychology ordinary versus artificial logic and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin Wittgenstein and Quine this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.</p>