Analytic Philosophy in America : : And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays / / Scott Soames.
In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the wo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Origins of These Essays
- Part One: Milestones
- 1. Analytic Philosophy in America
- 2. Methodology in Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
- 3. Language, Meaning, and Information
- 4. For Want of Cognitively Defined Propositions
- 5. The Place of Willard Van Orman Quine in Analytic Philosophy
- 6. David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy
- 7. Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility
- Part Two: Historical Problems and Controversies
- 8. What Is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification?
- 9. No Class
- 10. Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning
- Part Three: Current Topics
- 11. Two Versions of Millianism
- 12. What Are Natural Kinds?
- 13. Vagueness and the Law
- 14. Toward a Theory of Legal Interpretation
- 15. Deferentialism
- Index