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Passmore on the Passing Scene: John Passmore on “Recent Philosophers.” John Passmore

Passmore on the Passing Scene: John Passmore on “Recent Philosophers.” John Passmore BOOK REVIEWS 241 Title: Passmore on the Passing Scene: Publisher/Date: Open Court (La Salle, John Passmore on “Recent Illinois), 1992. Pp. viii + 173 Philosophers”. Price: P/b US$15.95. Author: John Passmore John Passmore’s Recent Philosophers Passmore begins with a disclaimer. began as an attempt to produce a chapter His attempt to produce an additional for an expanded edition of A Hundred chapter for A Hundred Years,he says, Years of Philosophy. The task is some- “dismally failed” (p. vii). The “flood of what simplified because, as in that earlier publications” in recent years, not to men- work, Recent Philosophers focuses on tion the meticulous nature of contem- epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, porary philosophy, makes an exhaustive construed broadly to include the philoso- treatment impossible (pp. vii, 5). The phies of mind, language, and science. nature of the work requires that these Like A Hundred Years, therefore, it is philosophers are described briefly, yet oriented to philosophers in the Anglo- “to describe it briefly is to fail to describe American tradition. Furthermore, though it” (p. vii). It is further simplified by the “Recent” in the title begins in the fact that “a hive of activity is not 1966, Passmore often goes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Artificial Intelligence Review Springer Journals

Passmore on the Passing Scene: John Passmore on “Recent Philosophers.” John Passmore

McDonough, Richard
Artificial Intelligence Review , Volume 13 (3) – Oct 2, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Science, general
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0269-2821
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1573-7462
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10.1023/A:1006530929950
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BOOK REVIEWS 241 Title: Passmore on the Passing Scene: Publisher/Date: Open Court (La Salle, John Passmore on “Recent Illinois), 1992. Pp. viii + 173 Philosophers”. Price: P/b US$15.95. Author: John Passmore John Passmore’s Recent Philosophers Passmore begins with a disclaimer. began as an attempt to produce a chapter His attempt to produce an additional for an expanded edition of A Hundred chapter for A Hundred Years,he says, Years of Philosophy. The task is some- “dismally failed” (p. vii). The “flood of what simplified because, as in that earlier publications” in recent years, not to men- work, Recent Philosophers focuses on tion the meticulous nature of contem- epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, porary philosophy, makes an exhaustive construed broadly to include the philoso- treatment impossible (pp. vii, 5). The phies of mind, language, and science. nature of the work requires that these Like A Hundred Years, therefore, it is philosophers are described briefly, yet oriented to philosophers in the Anglo- “to describe it briefly is to fail to describe American tradition. Furthermore, though it” (p. vii). It is further simplified by the “Recent” in the title begins in the fact that “a hive of activity is not 1966, Passmore often goes

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