Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : : The Dawn of Analysis /

Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : : The Dawn of Analysis / / Scott Soames.

This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy i...

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Soames, Scott,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the Two Volumes
  • Part One. G. E. Moore on Ethics, Epistemology, and Philosophical Analysis
  • Chapter 1. Common Sense and Philosophical Analysis
  • Chapter 2. Moore on Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge
  • Chapter 3. Moore On Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics
  • Chapter 4. The Legacies and Lost Opportunities of Moore'S Ethics
  • Suggested Further Reading for Part One
  • Part Two: Bertrand Russell on Logical and Linguistic Analysis
  • Chapter 5. Logical Form, Grammatical Form, and the Theory of Descriptions
  • Chapter 6. Logic and Mathematics: The Logicist Reduction
  • Chapter 7. Logical Constructions and the External World
  • Chapter 8. Russell'S Logical Atomism
  • Suggested Further Reading for Part Two
  • Part Three: Ludwig Wittgenstein'S Tractatus
  • Chapter 9. The Metaphysics of the Tractatus
  • Chapter 10. Meaning, Truth, and Logic in the Tractatus
  • Chapter 11. The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences
  • Suggested Further Reading for Part Three
  • Part Four: Logical Positivism and Emotivism
  • Chapter 12. The Logical Positivists on Necessity and Apriori Knowledge
  • Chapter 13. The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning
  • Chapter 14. Emotivism and Its Critics
  • Chapter 15. Normative Ethics in the Era of Emotivism: The Anticonsequentialism of Sir David Ross
  • Suggested Further Reading for Part Four
  • Part Five. The Post-Positivist Perspective of the Early W. V. Quine
  • Chapter 16. The Analytic and the Synthetic, the Necessary and the Possible, the Apriori and the Aposteriori
  • Chapter 17. Meaning and Holistic Verificationism
  • Suggested Further Reading for Part Five
  • Index

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