Jean-Yves Girard, a great logician, also has a lot of quarrels to pick with analytic philosophy. His prose is idiosyncratic, lyrical and definitely at odds with the dryness of "logic of the 20th century". If you like the idea of an energetic approach to reconceptualize philosophy, in particular the philosophy of logic, I recommend reading Girard's work. The Blind Spot: Lectures on Logic is an organized survey of logic starting with Hilbert's formalism and ending up in the operator algebras of Geometry of Interaction. Along the way, Girard's combative, highly opinionated and witty commentary ceaselessly entertains and engages.

Perhaps what is most striking about Girard in contrast to Nozick is how he manages to be very rigorous and artful simultaneously. Something as abstract of logic becomes a living creature when Girard talks about it. To see logic this way is to expect it to flourish in subordination to the rest of human experience, not languish in its own obscure enclave, ceaselessly chasing its own tail, reducing the alluring to the banal.

"Philosophers, he posited, would be better off if they stopped trying to prove things like scientists, an impulse he believed led thinkers to overlook how philosophy might stimulate the ‘mind’s excitement and sensuality’. Rather, they ought to limit themselves to explaining how a system of thought is possible."

Can someone explain what this last sentence means?

Wow, this is great. So he took philosophy out of the normative, positivist, Hegelian world it was stuck in, pointlessly proving useless esoteric questions of logic, and applied it phenomenologically to the broad experience of human experience and reality. Anybody know anything I should read besides Nozick along this vein?