Analysis and Explication in 20th Century Philosophy / Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla, John Preston, Severin Schroeder, Chris Daly, Tammo Lossau, Timothy C. Lord, José Pedro Correia, Moritz Cordes, Pieter Sjoerd Hasper, Philipp Steinkrüger, Frauke Albersmeier, David Hommen, Christoph Kann

• Superior document: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy / Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse; 22
• MitwirkendeR: Feldbacher-Escamilla, Christian J.; Preston, John; Schroeder, Severin; Daly, Chris; Lossau, Tammo; Lord, Timothy C.; Correia, José Pedro; Cordes, Moritz
• HerausgeberIn: Hasper, Pieter Sjoerd; Steinkrüger, Philipp; Albersmeier, Frauke; Hommen, David; Kann, Christoph
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; German
• Series: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy / Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse; 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Ever since the rise of the so-called analytic school in 20th century philosophy, philosophical analysis has often been considered to be synonymous with conceptual analysis. However, criticism has also been levelled at the conceptual analysis procedures, which undermined confidence in the merits of conceptual analysis. As far as the clarification of concepts is concerned, explication is therefore sometimes proposed as an alternative means. Combining historical and systematic perspectives, this volume collects new work on analytical and explicatory methods within 20th century philosophy. The contributions explore how clarificatory and reformatory methods of engaging with concepts have been construed and utilized by such different authors as Aristotle, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap or Mackie, marking out underappreciated congruencies and reevaluating historical disputes. They explore the role of analysis in metaphysics as well as metaethics and examine how methodological accounts relate to underlying ideas about concepts.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Uwe Meixner and Albert Newen -- Introduction / Frauke Albersmeier , David Hommen and Christoph Kann -- A Complementary Approach to Aristotle’s Account and Carnap’s Account of Explication / Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla -- Collingwood and Russell on Philosophical Method / Timothy C. Lord -- Analysis and Explanation in the Philosophical Investigations / José Pedro Correia -- Intuitions and Conceptual Analysis in Wittgensteinian Pragmatism / David Hommen and Frauke Albersmeier -- “ Putting the Linguistic Method in its Place ” / Tammo Lossau -- Explication, Description and Enlightenment / Severin Schroeder and John Preston -- Why Reduction is Underrated / Chris Daly -- Analysis of (‘)Pseudoproblems(’) / Moritz Cordes -- Carnapian Explication and the Canberra Plan’s Conceptual Analysis / Rogelio Miranda Vilchis -- Analysis, Explication, and the Nature of Concepts / Frauke Albersmeier -- Leibniz’s Argument Against Infinite Number / Filippo Costantini -- Hume on the Unity of Determinations of Extension / Jani Hakkarainen -- Price, C. 2015. Emotion. Cambridge – Malden: Polity Press. 199 pp. ISBN: 978-0-74-565636-6 / Marcos G. Breuer -- Barseghyan, H. 2015, The Laws of Scientific Change. Cham etc.: Springer. xvi + 275 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-17595-9 / Julian Husmann -- Cappelen, H. 2018. Fixing Language. An Essay in Conceptual Engineering . Oxford: Oxford University Press. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0-198-81471-9. / Steffen Koch -- McElvenny, J. 2018. Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: C. K. Ogden and his Contemporaries . Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press. viii + 188 pp. ISBN 978-1-4744-2503-2. / Adam Tamas Tuboly -- List of Contributors / Uwe Meixner and Albert Newen.