From the vantage point of comparative philosophy and with the goal of cross-tradition constructive engagement, this anthology explores how analytic and "Continental" approaches in philosophy, as understood broadly and presented in the Western and other traditions, can learn from each other and jointly contribute to the contemporary development of philosophy on a range of issues. The volume includes 14 essays which are organized into two parts respectively on analytic and "Continental" approaches in and beyond the Western tradition. The anthology also includes the volume editors’ specific introductions to the two parts as well as a general introduction to the whole volume.
Bo Mou, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Rochester, is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, and Editor of the journal
Comparative Philosophy. He has published in analytic philosophy, Chinese and comparative philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and ethics.
Richard Tieszen, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Columbia University, is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. He has published books, articles, and reviews in the areas of logic, phenomenology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of mind.
CONTENTS Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ vii
Notes on Transcription ................................................................................. ix
Contributors ..................................................................................................... xiii
General Introduction ..................................................................................... 1
Part One ANALYTIC AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
IN THE WESTERN TRADITION
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 7
Richard Tieszen Chapter One Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology
Considered in the Light of (Recent) Epistemology ......................... 11
Christian Beyer Chapter Two Meaning as Significance in Analytic and
Continental Philosophy ........................................................................... 33
A.P. Martinich Chapter Three Narrative Conceptions of the Self ............................. 55
Todd May Chapter Four Against Linguistic Exclusivism ................................... 71
Søren Overgaard Chapter Five Consciousness Experienced and Witnessed ............. 91
David Woodruff Smith Chapter Six Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Science,
and Global Philosophy ............................................................................. 103
Richard Tieszen Chapter Seven Of Boundaries and What Falls Between the
Cracks: Philosophy, Its History and Chinese ‘Philosophy’ ............ 125
Mary Tiles
Part Two CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF ANALYTIC
AND CONTINENTAL APPROACHES BEYOND
THE WESTERN TRADITION
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 147
Bo Mou Chapter Eight Philosophy Sans Frontières: Analytic and
Continental Philosophy—A View from the East .......................... 163
Graham Priest Chapter Nine Comparative Aspects of Africana Philosophy
and the Continental-Analytic Divide ................................................ 183
Tommy L. Lott Chapter Ten Meaning and Reality: A Cross-Traditional
Encounter .................................................................................................. 199
Lajos L. Brons Chapter Eleven The Buddhist Challenge to the Noumenal:
Analyzing Epistemological Deconstruction .................................... 221
Sandra A. Wawrytko Chapter Twelve A Daoist Perspective on Analytical
and Phenomenological Methodologies in the Analysis
of Intuition ................................................................................................ 243
Marshall D. Willman Chapter Thirteen Daoism as Critical Theory ................................... 261
Mario Wenning Chapter Fourteen On Daoist Approach to the Issue of Being
in Engaging Quinean and Heideggerian Approaches .................. 289
Bo Mou Index ................................................................................................................ 321
All interested in analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and their relationship as well as those interested in comparative philosophy.