The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes 9780415162517, 0415162513, 9780203048573, 0203048571, 9780203211083, 0203211081

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Table of contents :
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I Introduction
1 Analytic philosophy: what, whence, and whither? - P.M.S.Hacker
Introduction
Characteristic Marks of Analytic Philosophy
A Historical Category: A Synoptic View of Analytic Philosophy
Whither?
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Part II Plot
2 Analysis in analytic philosophy - Peter Hylton
Frege
Russell
Wittgenstein
Carnap
Quine
Conclusion
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
3 Analytical philosophy as a matter of style - J.J.Ross
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VII
VIII
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XI
XII
BIBLIOGRAPHY
4 Analytic philosophy: rationalism vs. romanticism - Anat Matar
The Romantic
“Craving for Generality”
Expressing the Ineffable?
Autonomy of Philosophy
Permanent Development?
Conclusion
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
5 The subject, normative structure, and externalism - Mark Sacks
Introduction
The Rejection of the Egological Conception of the Subject outside the Analytic Tradition
The Demise of the Egological Conception within the Analytic Tradition
Consequences of Decentering the Subject
Conclusion
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
6 Empiricism without positivism - John Skorupski
Empiricism after Kant
Mill’s Empiricism about Logic
The A Priori
Psychologism
Epistemic Norms
Empiricism and Normativity
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
7 Psychologism and meaning Yemima - Ben-Menahem
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Part III Heroes
8 Frege, semantics, and the double definition stroke - Juliet Floyd
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II
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
9 Analysis without elimination: On the philosophical significance of Russell’s “On Denoting” - Gilead Bar-Elli
Analysis and Elimination—Some Conceptions
Denotation and Aboutness in Russell’s “On Denoting”
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
10 Perception: from Moore to Austin - Ruth Anna Putnam
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NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
11 Wittgenstein: analytic philosopher? - Anat Biletzki
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NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
12 Wittgenstein as the forlorn caretaker of language - Yuval Lurie
A Basic Attitude towards Human Beings
Collecting Reminders
The Miracles of Nature
Touring Our Ancient City
The Specter of Science and the Glory of Everyday Language
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
13 Heidegger, Carnap, Wittgenstein: much ado about nothing - Eli Friedlander
The Triangle
The Significance of Nonsense
Demanding Silence
NOTE / BIBLIOGRAPHY
Part IV An eye to the future
14 Kripkean realism and Wittgenstein’s realism - Hilary Putnam
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
15 Who is about to kill analytic philosophy? - Jaakko Hintikka
Was Wittgenstein the Hand?
Quine’s Inscrutabilities
Kuhn’s Negative Paradigm
Intuitions That Are Not
One-and-a-Half Truths about Wittgenstein
The Strategy of Strategies
Correcting Frege’s Fallacy
Reference System vs. Identification System
What vs. Where
Who Is About to Kill Analytic Philosophy?
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Index

The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes
 9780415162517, 0415162513, 9780203048573, 0203048571, 9780203211083, 0203211081

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