This cogent and knowledgeable critique of the tradition of modern analytic philosophy focuses on the work of its central figures-Russell, Carnap, and Quine-and finds it wanting. In its place, Hao Wang unfolds his own original view of what philosophy could and should be. The base of any serious philosophy, he contends, should take as its point of departure the actual state of human knowledge. He explains the relation of this new tradition to mathematical...