CHAPTER TWELVE

THE HISTORY OF EPISTEMOLOGY: CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Contemporary Philosophy began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of what sets it off from modern Philosophy is its explicit criticism of the modern tradition and sometimes its apparent indifference to it. There are two basic strains of Contemporary Philosophy: Continental Philosophy, which is the Philosophical style of western European Philosophers, and analytic Philosophy (also called Anglo-American Philosophy), which includes the work of many European Philosophers who immigrated to Britain, the United States, and Australia shortly before World War II.