The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy
During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic philosophy, as analytic philosophers examine the foundations of their tradition and question many of the assumptions of their predecessors. This has led to greater historical self-consciousness among analytic philosophers and more scholarly work on the historical contexts in which analytic philosophy developed. This historical turn in analytic philosophy has been gathering pace since the 1990s, and the present volume is the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on the history of analytic philosophy. It contains state-of-the-art contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, all of the contributions specially commissioned. The introductory essays discuss the nature and historiography of analytic philosophy, accompanied by a detailed chronology and bibliography. Part One elucidates the origins of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the work of Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Part Two explains the development of analytic philosophy, from Oxford realism and logical positivism to the most recent work in analytic philosophy, and includes essays on ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy as well as on the areas usually seen as central to analytic philosophy, such as philosophy of language and mind. Part Three explores certain key themes in the history of analytic philosophy.
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The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy
During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic philosophy, as analytic philosophers examine the foundations of their tradition and question many of the assumptions of their predecessors. This has led to greater historical self-consciousness among analytic philosophers and more scholarly work on the historical contexts in which analytic philosophy developed. This historical turn in analytic philosophy has been gathering pace since the 1990s, and the present volume is the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on the history of analytic philosophy. It contains state-of-the-art contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, all of the contributions specially commissioned. The introductory essays discuss the nature and historiography of analytic philosophy, accompanied by a detailed chronology and bibliography. Part One elucidates the origins of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the work of Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Part Two explains the development of analytic philosophy, from Oxford realism and logical positivism to the most recent work in analytic philosophy, and includes essays on ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy as well as on the areas usually seen as central to analytic philosophy, such as philosophy of language and mind. Part Three explores certain key themes in the history of analytic philosophy.
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The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

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During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic philosophy, as analytic philosophers examine the foundations of their tradition and question many of the assumptions of their predecessors. This has led to greater historical self-consciousness among analytic philosophers and more scholarly work on the historical contexts in which analytic philosophy developed. This historical turn in analytic philosophy has been gathering pace since the 1990s, and the present volume is the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on the history of analytic philosophy. It contains state-of-the-art contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, all of the contributions specially commissioned. The introductory essays discuss the nature and historiography of analytic philosophy, accompanied by a detailed chronology and bibliography. Part One elucidates the origins of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the work of Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Part Two explains the development of analytic philosophy, from Oxford realism and logical positivism to the most recent work in analytic philosophy, and includes essays on ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy as well as on the areas usually seen as central to analytic philosophy, such as philosophy of language and mind. Part Three explores certain key themes in the history of analytic philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198747994
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2015
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 1184
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 2.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Beaney, University of York

Michael Beaney is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He works on the history of analytic philosophy and on conceptions of analysis in the history of philosophy. He is the author of Frege: Making Sense (Duckworth, 1996), and editor of The Frege Reader (Blackwell, 1997), Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (with Erich Reck; 4 vols., Routledge, 2005), and The Analytic Turn (Routledge, 2007). He is Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and its Historiography1. What is analytic philosophy?, Michael Beaney2. The historiography of analytic philosophy, Michael Beaney3. Chronology of analytic philosophy and its historiography, Michael Beaney4. Bibliography of analytic philosophy and its historiography, Michael BeaneyPart One: The Origins of Analytic Philosophy5. Bolzano's anti-Kantianism: from a priori cognitions to conceptual truths, Mark Textor6. Time, norms, and structure in nineteenth-century German philosophy of science, David Hyder7. Frege and the German background to analytic philosophy, Gottfried Gabriel8. Analytic philosophy, the Analytic school, and British philosophy, John Skorupski9. The mathematical and logical background to analytic philosophy, Jamie Tappenden10. Gottlob Frege: some forms of influence, Tyler Burge11. Russell and Moore's revolt against British idealism, Nicholas Griffin12. Russell's theory of descriptions and the idea of logical construction, Bernard Linsky13. G. E. Moore and the Cambridge School of Analysis, Thomas Baldwin14. The whole meaning of a book of nonsense: reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Michael KremerPart Two: The Development of Analytic Philosophy15. Oxford realism, Charles Travis and Mark Kalderon16. Early logical empiricism and its reception: the case of the Vienna Circle, Thomas Uebel17. Developments in logic: Carnap, Godel and Tarski, Erich H. Reck18. Wittgenstein's later philosophy, Hans-Johann Glock19. Quine, Kripke, and Putnam, Maria Baghramian and Andrew Jorgensen20. The myth of logical behaviourism and the origins of the identity theory, Sean Crawford21. The development of theories of meaning: from Frege to McDowell and beyond, Alex Miller22. Reason, action and the will: the fall and rise of causalism, Stewart Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic23. Metaphysics in analytic philosophy, Peter Simons24. Meta-ethics in the twentieth century, Jonathan Dancy25. Normative ethical theory in the twentieth century, Julia Driver26. Analytic aesthetics, Peter Lamarque27. Analytic political philosophy, Jonathan WolffPart Three: Themes in the History of Analytic Philosophy28. The function is unsaturated, Richard G. Heck, Jr., and Robert May29. When logical atomism met the Theaetetus: Ryle on Naming and Saying, Richard Gaskin30. Reading the Tractatus with G. E. M. Anscombe, Cora Diamond31. Ideas of a logically perfect language in analytic philosophy, Peter Hylton32. The linguistic turn in analytic philosophy, P. M. S. Hacker33. Perception and sense data, Gary Hatfield34. Scepticism and knowledge: Moore's proof of an external world, Annalisa Coliva35. The varieties of rigorous experience, Juliet Floyd36. Modality, Sanford Shieh37. Inferentialism and normativity, Jaroslav Peregrin38. Pragmatism and analytic philosophy, Cheryl Misak39. The role of phenomenology in analytic philosophy, David Woodruff Smith
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