Analytic Philosophy Adrift

About the Book

Analytic philosophy, both English and American, is unable to solve its standing problems. The proof for this is a new metaphysics which solves them, the most notable being the Cartesian ontological mind-body problem and the problem of universals. A tactual realism is defended, qualities are ordered by a new freestanding dyadic asymmetric resemblance relation. The book closes with a proof that spikes Sorites paradoxes.

About the Author

Van Steenburgh grew up in Binghamton, New York and then moved to Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from West High School. He then enrolled at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, transferring at the end of two years to Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan where he received a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy. He received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He taught for 12 years in the University of Michigan system and then joined the philosophy faculty at Northern Illinois University, DeKallb, Illinois. He has contributed to leading philosophy journals. NIU gave him the opportunity to begin working on a new metaphysics most of which appears for the first time in this book.