Future Pasts The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

by Floyd, Juliet; Shieh, Sanford

• ISBN13: 9780195139167
• ISBN10: 019513916X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. Drawing together a venerable group of contributors, including John Rawls and Hilary Putnam, this volume explores the historical contexts in which analytic philosophers have worked, revealing multiple discontinuities and misunderstandings as well as a complex interaction between science and philosophical reflection.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xv
Introduction	3	(22)
Juliet Floyd
Sanford Shieh
Part I Before the Wars: origins of Traditions
1879 Publication of Frege's Begriffsschrift
Frege's Conception of Logic	25	(18)
Warren Goldfarb
1892 Publication of Frege's ``Uber Sinn und Bedeutung''
Theory and Elucidation: The End of the Age of Innocence	43	(24)
Joan Weiner
1900 Publication of Husserl's Logical Investigations
Bolzano, Frege, and Husserl on Reference and Object	67	(14)
Dagfinn Follesdal
1905 Publication of Mach's Erkenntnis und Irrtum
Ernst Mach at the Crossroads of Twentieth-Century Philosophy	81	(20)
Jaakko Hintikka
1910 Publication of volume I of Russell's and Whitehead's
Principia Mathematica
Truth and Propositional Unity in Early Russell	101	(22)
Thomas Ricketts
1913 Publication of Husserl's Ideas I
Husserl and the Linguistic Turn	123	(22)
Charles Parsons
Part II Between the Wars: Logical Positivism and Critiques of Metaphysics
1921 Publication of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Number and Ascriptions of Number in Wittgenstein's Tractatus	145	(48)
Juliet Floyd
1926 Publication of Heidegger's Being and Time
Heidegger's Response to Skepticism in Being and Time	193	(22)
Edward H. Minar
1932 W. V. Quine submits his Harvard Ph.D. Dissertation, The Logic of Sequences
Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist	215	(8)
W. V. Quine
1934 Publication of Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language
Tolerance and Analyticity in Carnap's Philosophy of Mathematics	223	(34)
Michael Friedman
1934 Quine's Harvard lectures on Carnap
``The Defensible Province of Philosophy'': Quine's 1934 Lectures on Carnap	257	(20)
Peter Hylton
1938 Publication of Hans Reichenbach's Experience and Prediction
Hans Reichenbach: Realist and Verificationist	277	(14)
Hilary Putnam
Part III After the Wars: Rethinking the Future
1945 Publication of Russell's History of Western Philosophy
Sure Path of a Science: Kant in the Analytic Tradition	291	(24)
Susan Neiman
1949 John Dewey's ninetieth birthday celebration reported in Time
Non-Negotiable Demands: metaphysics, Politics, and the Discourse of Needs	315	(24)
Naomi Scheman
1950 Publication of Alan Turing's ``Computing Machinery and Intelligence'' in Mind
Language as Social Software	339	(12)
Rohit Parikh
1953 Publication of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Silences Noises Voices	351	(8)
Stanley Cavell
1961 Abraham Robinson's lecture on infinitesimals at the Silver Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic
Long Decimals	359	(10)
W.D. Hart
1970 Saul Kripke gives the lectures of Naming and Necessity
Meaning, Rigidity, and Modality	369	(24)
Sanford Shieh
1979 Publication of Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Epistemology and Science in the Image of Modern Philosophy: Rorty on Descartes and Locke	393	(22)
Gary Hatfield
1993 The Sacks-Dreben Debate: ``The Fundamental Notions of Logic''
Formal Losses	415	(2)
Gerald E. Sacks
Afterword: A Reminiscence	417	(14)
John Rawls
Bibliography	431	(26)
Index	457