下面这篇文章主要根据我于1962年夏天在牛津大学所学习到的东西和按照这种经验我所读到的东西写成。在一篇短文里当然不可能非常公平地论述象当代英国哲学这样一种复杂现象。因此注意将要集中在三个密切相关的领域,即形而上学、神学和历史哲学的某些创造性征兆上。形而上学和神学的新动向。尽管对形而上学的反对在继续扩大,仍然有一些即将发生变化的征兆。开始是逻辑实证主义明显地衰落了。今天很少有英国哲学家会冒自称逻辑实证主义者的危险。因此弗鲁(A.Flew),作为《逻辑和语言》第二辑的编者,谨 The following article is based largely on what I learned at Oxford University in the summer of 1962 and what I read based on that experience. Of course, in a short essay, it is impossible to fairly fairly discuss such a complex phenomenon as contemporary British philosophy. So attention is going to be focused on three closely related areas, some of the creative signs of metaphysics, theology, and philosophy of history. New trends in metaphysics and theology. Although the opposition to metaphysics continues to expand, there are still some signs of imminent change. The beginning is a logical decline of positivism. Few English philosophers today run the risk of claiming to be logical positivists. Therefore, A. Flew, editor of the second series of “Logic and Language,” said