The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

by Beaney, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780198747994
• ISBN10: 0198747993
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-11-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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 Historiography
1. What is analytic philosophy?, Michael Beaney
2. The historiography of analytic philosophy, Michael Beaney
3. Chronology of analytic philosophy and its historiography, Michael Beaney
4. Bibliography of analytic philosophy and its historiography, Michael Beaney
Part One: The Origins of Analytic Philosophy
5. Bolzano's anti-Kantianism: from a priori cognitions to conceptual truths, Mark Textor
6. Time, norms, and structure in nineteenth-century German philosophy of science, David Hyder
7. Frege and the German background to analytic philosophy, Gottfried Gabriel
8. Analytic philosophy, the Analytic school, and British philosophy, John Skorupski
9. The mathematical and logical background to analytic philosophy, Jamie Tappenden
10. Gottlob Frege: some forms of influence, Tyler Burge
11. Russell and Moore's revolt against British idealism, Nicholas Griffin
12. Russell's theory of descriptions and the idea of logical construction, Bernard Linsky
13. G. E. Moore and the Cambridge School of Analysis, Thomas Baldwin
14. The whole meaning of a book of nonsense: reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Michael Kremer
Part Two: The Development of Analytic Philosophy
15. Oxford realism, Charles Travis and Mark Kalderon
16. Early logical empiricism and its reception: the case of the Vienna Circle, Thomas Uebel
17. Developments in logic: Carnap, Godel and Tarski, Erich H. Reck
18. Wittgenstein's later philosophy, Hans-Johann Glock
19. Quine, Kripke, and Putnam, Maria Baghramian and Andrew Jorgensen
20. The myth of logical behaviourism and the origins of the identity theory, Sean Crawford
21. The development of theories of meaning: from Frege to McDowell and beyond, Alex Miller
22. Reason, action and the will: the fall and rise of causalism, Stewart Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic
23. Metaphysics in analytic philosophy, Peter Simons
24. Meta-ethics in the twentieth century, Jonathan Dancy
25. Normative ethical theory in the twentieth century, Julia Driver
26. Analytic aesthetics, Peter Lamarque
27. Analytic political philosophy, Jonathan Wolff
Part Three: Themes in the History of Analytic Philosophy
28. The function is unsaturated, Richard G. Heck, Jr., and Robert May
29. When logical atomism met the Theaetetus: Ryle on Naming and Saying, Richard Gaskin
30. Reading the Tractatus with G. E. M. Anscombe, Cora Diamond
31. Ideas of a logically perfect language in analytic philosophy, Peter Hylton
32. The linguistic turn in analytic philosophy, P. M. S. Hacker
33. Perception and sense data, Gary Hatfield
34. Scepticism and knowledge: Moore's proof of an external world, Annalisa Coliva
35. The varieties of rigorous experience, Juliet Floyd
36. Modality, Sanford Shieh
37. Inferentialism and normativity, Jaroslav Peregrin
38. Pragmatism and analytic philosophy, Cheryl Misak
39. The role of phenomenology in analytic philosophy, David Woodruff Smith