The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy

by E. Reck (Editor)

Overview

During the last 25 years, a large number of publications on the history of analytic philosophy have appeared, significantly more than in the preceding period. As most of these works are by analytically trained authors, it is tempting to speak of a 'historical turn' in analytic philosophy. The present volume constitutes both a contribution to this body of work and a reflection on what is, or might be, achieved in it. The twelve new essays, by an international group of contributors, range from case studies on individual philosophers (Russell, Carnap, Quine, and Ryle) through discussions of broader themes in the history of analytic philosophy (in logic and philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and psychology) to related methodological reflections (on the relationship between doing analytic philosophy and studying the history of philosophy, on various forms of philosophical history, and on their respective benefits).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137304872
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	03/27/2013
Series:	History of Analytic Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	474 KB

About the Author

THOMAS BALDWIN Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of York, UK MICHAEL BEANEY Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of York, UK STEWART CANDLISH Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia ANDRÉ CARUS Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK HANS-JOHANN GLOCK Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Zürich, Switzerland GARY HATFIELD Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA JEREMY HEIS Assistant Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, USA PETER HYLTON Professor of Philosophy and UIC Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA MICHAEL KREMER Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA ERICH RECK Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA ALAN RICHARDSON Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada JULIA TANNEY Reader in Philosophy of Mind, Department of Philosophy, University of Kent, UK

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical History; Erich H. Reck PART I: CASE STUDIES 1. Philosophy and the Tide of History: Bertrand Russell's Role in the Rise of Analytic Philosophy; Stewart Candlish 2. Taking the Measure of Carnap's Philosophical Engineering: Metalogic as Metrology; Alan Richardson 3. Quine and the Aufbau : The Possibility of Objective Knowledge; Peter Hylton 4. Ryle's Conceptual Cartography; Julia Tanney PART II: BROADER THEMES 5. Frege, Lotze, and Boole; Jeremy Heis 6. Frege or Dedekind? Towards a Reevalution of Their Legacies; Erich H. Reck 7. Psychology, Epistemology, and the Problem of the External World: Russell and Before; Gary Hatfield 8. C. I. Lewis and the Analyticity Debate; Thomas Baldwin PART III: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS 9. Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction; Michael Beaney 10. History and the Future of Logical Empiricism; A. W. Carus 11. What is the Good of Philosophical History?; Michael Kremer 12. The Owl of Minerva: Is Analytic Philosophy Moribund?; Hans-Johann Glock Index