Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy

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.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgements ........................................................................................ viiNotes on Transcription ................................................................................. ixContributors ..................................................................................................... xiiiGeneral Introduction ..................................................................................... 1Part One ANALYTIC AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHYIN THE WESTERN TRADITIONIntroduction ..................................................................................................... 7Richard TieszenChapter One Husserl’s Transcendental PhenomenologyConsidered in the Light of (Recent) Epistemology ......................... 11Christian BeyerChapter Two Meaning as Significance in Analytic andContinental Philosophy ........................................................................... 33A.P. MartinichChapter Three Narrative Conceptions of the Self ............................. 55Todd MayChapter Four Against Linguistic Exclusivism ................................... 71Søren OvergaardChapter Five Consciousness Experienced and Witnessed ............. 91David Woodruff SmithChapter Six Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Science,and Global Philosophy ............................................................................. 103Richard TieszenChapter Seven Of Boundaries and What Falls Between theCracks: Philosophy, Its History and Chinese ‘Philosophy’ ............ 125Mary TilesPart TwoCONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF ANALYTICAND CONTINENTAL APPROACHES BEYONDTHE WESTERN TRADITIONIntroduction ..................................................................................................... 147Bo MouChapter Eight Philosophy Sans Frontières: Analytic andContinental Philosophy—A View from the East .......................... 163Graham PriestChapter Nine Comparative Aspects of Africana Philosophyand the Continental-Analytic Divide ................................................ 183Tommy L. LottChapter Ten Meaning and Reality: A Cross-TraditionalEncounter .................................................................................................. 199Lajos L. BronsChapter Eleven The Buddhist Challenge to the Noumenal:Analyzing Epistemological Deconstruction .................................... 221Sandra A. WawrytkoChapter Twelve A Daoist Perspective on Analyticaland Phenomenological Methodologies in the Analysisof Intuition ................................................................................................ 243Marshall D. WillmanChapter Thirteen Daoism as Critical Theory ................................... 261Mario WenningChapter Fourteen On Daoist Approach to the Issue of Beingin Engaging Quinean and Heideggerian Approaches .................. 289Bo MouIndex ................................................................................................................ 321