Featuring essays from leading philosophical scholars, 12 Modern Philosophers explores the works, origins, and influences of twelve of the most important late 20th Century philosophers working in the analytic tradition.

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• Draws on essays from well-known scholars, including Thomas Baldwin, Catherine Wilson, Adrian Moore and Lori Gruen
  
• Locates the authors and their oeuvre within the context of the discipline as a whole
  
• Considers how contemporary philosophy both draws from, and contributes to, the broader intellectual and cultural milieu

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 8
• INTRODUCTION CHRISTOPHER BELSHAW AND GARY KEMP 12
• 1 QUINE A. W. MOORE 27
• 2 RAWLS THOMAS BALDWIN 45
• 3 DAVIDSON ERNIE LEPORE AND KIRK LUDWIG 65
• 4 WILLIAMS CATHERINE WILSON 87
• 5 RORTY ALAN MALACHOWSKI 105
• 6 FODOR JOSÉ LUIS BERMÚDEZ 126
• 7 NAGEL SONIA SEDIVY 145
• 8 KRIPKE ALEXANDER BIRD 164
• 9 NOZICK A. R. LACEY 184
• 10 PARFIT JACOB ROSS 203
• 11 McDOWELL MARIE McGINN 227
• 12 SINGER LORI GRUEN 243