Insight and Analysis

Andrew Beards is Reader in Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Programme at the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Objectivity and Historical Understanding (Ashgate, 1997) and Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy (University of Toronto Press, 2008).

• Preface; Part 1. Knowing and Consciousness; 1. Self-refutation and Self-knowledge; 2. John Searle and Human Consciousness; 3. MacIntyre, Critical Realism and Animal Consciousness; Part 2. Philosophy of Language; 4. Ubersicht as Oversight: Problems in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy; 5. Anti-Realism and Critical Realism: Dummett and Lonergan; Part 3. Continental Thought; 6. Badiou's Metaphysical Basis for Ethics; Part 4. Ethics; 7. Moral Conversion and Problems in Proportionalism; Part 5. Philosophy and Theology; 8. Christianity, Interculturality and Salvation; 9. Rahner's Philosophy: A Lonerganian critique Concluding Remarks.

"An enormously impressive work. [Beard's] attitude, invariably appreciative yet critical, is ideal for the task in hand; his erudition is formidable. His style, serene, limpid and unpretentious, is a model for philosophical exposition." -- Hugo Meynell, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, the University of Calgary, Canada"