Logic, Language, and the Search for Certainty examines the first great movement of twentieth-century analytic philosophy: the attempt to secure philosophical clarity through logic, linguistic analysis, formal systems, and increasingly rigorous standards of justification.
Beginning with Frege, Russell, and Moore, the book follows the development of analytic thought through early Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, Carnap, Tarski, Gödel, and Quine. It explores how these thinkers transformed philo...


