Insight and Analysis: Essays in Applying Lonergan's Thought

Brings Lonergan into engagement with analytic and continental philosophers such as Dummett, Wittgenstein, Searle, MacIntyre, and Badiou as well as theologians such as Rahner and Benedict XVI.

PrefacePart 1. Knowing and Consciousness1. Self-refutation and Self-knowledge2. John Searle and Human Consciousness3. MacIntyre, Critical Realism and Animal ConsciousnessPart 2. Philosophy of Language4. Übersicht as Oversight: Problems in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy5. Anti-Realism and Critical Realism: Dummett and LonerganPart 3. Continental Thought6. Badiou's Metaphysical Basis for EthicsPart 4. Ethics7. Moral Conversion and Problems in ProportionalismPart 5. Philosophy and Theology8. Christianity, Interculturality and Salvation9. Rahner's Philosophy: A Lonerganian critiqueConcluding Remarks

"I find this an enormously impressive work. It appears to me that there are few tasks that are more important than bringing Lonergan's thought to bear on the myriad problems of our culture to which it is relevant. Beards does more effectively than any other author known to me the work of relating Lonergan's philosophy and theory of knowledge to the preoccupations and concerns of contemporary analytical philosophers; but he seems equally at home in 'continental' thinking. His 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.
'This book will be controversial. Yet despite its penetrating analysis, Beards always shows a deep respect for his interlocutors. It is this that makes this wide ranging collection applying Lonergan's thought to various philosophies well worth the effort.'

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 (1997) and Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy (2008).