Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy : From the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy

From the vantage point of comparative philosophy, this anthology explores how analytic and ""Continental"" approaches in the Western and other philosophical traditions can constructively engage each other and jointly contribute to the contemporary development of philosophy. 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 ................................... 71Soren 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 Tiles Part TwoCONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF ANALYTICAND CONTINENTAL APPROACHES BEYONDTHE WESTERN TRADITIONIntroduction ..................................................................................................... 147Bo MouChapter Eight Philosophy Sans Frontieres: 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 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