I enjoyed this book, though it peters out at the end as its topic, the linguistic turn in philosophy, becomes unfashionable. I would have liked a bit more summa

I enjoyed this book, though it peters out at the end as its topic, the linguistic turn in philosophy, becomes unfashionable. I would have liked a bit more summary, perhaps connecting the period to Chomsky, Pinker and other linguists, who were influenced, even if they rejected this school. There are two other new books that overlap with the story here: “Metaphysical Animals” and “The women are up to something”, both about the four women philosophers (Murdoch, Foot, Anscombe, and Midgley) that play important but not central roles in this book. If you haven’t read Midgley and are interested in the relationship between science and philosophy, check her out. She recently (2018) passed away at age 99, only shortly after publishing her last book. I think the “coincidence” of three books about the same group of people coming out nearly simultaneously has a lot to do with Midgley passing—both because it was the end of an era and because Midgley gave a lot of interviews and made a lot of information about her life and friends available in her last years.