ABSTRACT
The turn of the century, from the nineteenth to the twentieth, marked a signifi-
cant change in how philosophy was done. There was the desire to bring about,
even if not for the first time, a radical fresh start in philosophy, one that included
a proper definition of the philosophical enterprise. There was the hope of pulling
free from what many philosophers saw as the quagmire of philosophical ideas
bequeathed by the nineteenth century. There was indeed the expectation that
philosophy would at last definitively get off on the right foot, and, through the
harnessing of new tools and methods, solve or eliminate philosophical problems
that had been intractable for millennia.
