Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : : The Age of Meaning /

Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : : The Age of Meaning / / 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: OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • PART ONE: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
  • CHAPTER 1. Rejection of the Tractarian Conception of Language and Analysis
  • CHAPTER 2. Rule Following and the Private Language Argument
  • PART TWO: CLASSICS OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY: TRUTH, GOODNESS, THE MIND, AND ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 3. Ryle's Dilemmas
  • CHAPTER 4. Ryle's Concept of Mind
  • CHAPTER 5. Strawson's Performative Theory of Truth
  • CHAPTER 6. Hare's Performative Theory of Goodness
  • PART THREE: MORE CLASSICS OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY: THE RESPONSE TO RADICAL SKEPTICISM
  • CHAPTER 7. Malcolm's Paradigm Case Argument
  • CHAPTER 8. Austin's Sense and Sensibilia
  • PART FOUR: PAUL GRICE AND THE END OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY
  • CHAPTER 9. Language Use and the Logic of Conversation
  • PART FIVE: THE PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISM OF WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE
  • CHAPTER 10. The Indeterminacy of Translation
  • CHAPTER 11. Quine's Radical Semantic Eliminativism
  • PART SIX: DONALD DAVIDSON ON TRUTH AND MEANING
  • CHAPTER 12. Theories of Truth as Theories of Meaning
  • CHAPTER 13. Truth, Interpretation, and the Alleged Unintelligibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes
  • PART SEVEN: SAUL KRIPKE ON NAMING AND NECESSITY
  • CHAPTER 14. Names, Essence, and Possibility
  • CHAPTER 15. The Necessary Aposteriori
  • CHAPTER 16. The Contingent Apriori
  • CHAPTER 17. Natural Kind Terms and Theoretical Identification Statements
  • EPILOGUE: The Era of Specialization
  • Index

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