Analytic Philosophy

by Editor: Aloysius Martinich (University of Texas, Austin); Editor: E. David Sosa (University of Texas, Austin)

• ISBN13: 9780631216476
• ISBN10: 0631216472
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This substantial anthology comprises the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of readings in analytic philosophy of the twentieth century. It provides a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts. The volume is divided into seven sections: philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, free will and personal identity, ethics, and methodology. It includes the most familiar texts of the analytic tradition, as well as several others that are less often anthologized. Several articles are logically related to each other. For example, Moore's Four Forms of Skepticism, appears together with selections from Wittgenstein's On Certainty; Langford's discussion of the paradox of analysis and Moore's reply are both included; and Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism is paired with Grice and Strawson's In Defense of a Dogma. The distinctive selections and internal coherence make this anthology an invaluable guide for anyone interested in twentieth-century and analytic philosophy.

Author Biography

A. P. Martinich is Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and the author or editor of ten books, most recently Hobbes: A Biography (1999) and The Philosophy of Language (fourth edition, 2001). He is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.David Sosa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-editor, with A. P. Martinich, of A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell 2001).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
Part I Philosophy of Language	5	(94)
On Sense and Reference	7	(12)
Gottlob Frege
Thought	19	(13)
Gottlob Frege
On Denoting	32	(9)
Bertrand Russell
On Referring	41	(14)
P. F. Strawson
Meaning	55	(6)
H. P. Grice
Truth and Meaning	61	(11)
Donald Davidson
Identity and Necessity	72	(18)
Saul Kripke
Meaning and Reference	90	(9)
Hilary Putnam
Further Reading in Philosophy of Language	97	(2)
Part II Metaphysics	99	(54)
On the Relations of Universals and Particulars	101	(11)
Bertrand Russell
From the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	112	(10)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Particular and General	122	(13)
P. F. Strawson
On What There Is	135	(9)
W. V. Quine
The Identity of Indiscernibles	144	(9)
Max Black
Further Reading in Metaphysics	151	(2)
Part III Epistemology	153	(82)
Four Forms of Scepticism	155	(16)
G. E. Moore
From On Certainty	171	(14)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description	185	(5)
Bertrand Russell
The Problem of the Criterion	190	(9)
Roderick Chisholm
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?	199	(2)
Edmund Gettier
Laws and their Role in Scientific Explanation	201	(14)
Carl G. Hempel
The New Riddle of Induction	215	(10)
Nelson Goodman
Epistemology Naturalized	225	(10)
W. V. Quine
Further Reading in Epistemology	234	(1)
Part IV Philosophy of Mind	235	(50)
The Nature of Mind	237	(8)
D. M. Armstrong
The Nature of Mental States	245	(7)
Hilary Putnam
Mental Events	252	(11)
Donald Davidson
What Is It Like To Be a Bat?	263	(8)
Thomas Nagel
Mad Pain and Martian Pain	271	(6)
David Lewis
Can Computers Think?	277	(8)
John Searle
Further Reading in Philosophy of Mind	284	(1)
Part V Freedom and Personal Identity	285	(58)
The Conceivability of Mechanism	287	(14)
Norman Malcolm
Freedom and Resentment	301	(14)
P. F. Strawson
Human Freedom and the Self	315	(7)
Roderick Chisholm
The Self and the Future	322	(10)
Bernard Williams
Actions, Reasons, and Causes	332	(11)
Donald Davidson
Further Reading in Freedom and Personal Identity	342	(1)
Part VI Ethics	343	(58)
The Subject-matter of Ethics	345	(10)
G. E. Moore
The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms	355	(10)
C. L. Stevenson
Justice as Fairness	365	(16)
John Rawls
Modern Moral Philosophy	381	(12)
G. E. M. Anscombe
Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives	393	(8)
Philippa Foot
Further Reading in Ethics	399	(2)
Part VII Methodology	401	(112)
The Notion of Analysis in Moore's Philosophy	403	(11)
C. H. Langford
Reply to Langford	414	(4)
G. E. Moore
The Elimination of Metaphysics	418	(7)
A. J. Ayer
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology	425	(11)
Rudolf Carnap
A Plea for Excuses	436	(14)
J. L. Austin
Two Dogmas of Empiricism	450	(13)
W. V. Quine
In Defense of a Dogma	463	(10)
H. P. Grice
P. F. Strawson
Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man	473	(24)
Wilfrid Sellars
From The Blue and Brown Books	497	(16)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Further Reading in Methodology	511	(2)
Index	513