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- Interviews people who knew canonical figures both personally and professionally
- Sheds insight on the work and life of major figures including Russel, Reichenbach, Quine, Carnap, Ayer, and Austin
- Details some of the personal and professional impacts of Nazi persecution on early analytic philosophers
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Jeffrey Maynes is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Among his publications are “On the Stakes of Experimental Philosophy,” (Teorema, 2017), “Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias” (Informal Logic, 2015), and “Linguistic Intuitions” (Philosophy Compass, 2013, with Steven Gross).
Steven Gimbel is Professor at Gettysburg College where he held the Edwin T. and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Chair for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities. He is author or editor of eight books including Isn’t that Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy (Routledge, 2017), Einstein: His Space and Times (Yale, 2015), and Einstein’s Jewish Science (Johns Hopkins, 2012). He has four video lecture series in The Teaching Company’s series The Great Courses, including Redefining Reality: Intellectual Implications of Modern Science (2015) and The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Personal Memories of the Early Analytic Philosophers
Book Subtitle: Analytic Logic / Synthetic Lives
Authors: Jeffrey Maynes, Steven Gimbel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12707-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12706-9Published: 01 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12709-0Published: 02 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12707-6Published: 31 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 194
Topics: Analytic Philosophy