Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
1. Editor’s Introduction: Interpreting the Analytic Tradition
	Notes
	References
2. Idealism and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Moore Interprets Kant and Bradley
	Idealism in Britain and in Germany
	Moore Interprets Idealism
	Notes
	References
3. The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy
	Notes
	References
4. Russell, Ryle, and Phenomenology: An Alternative Parsing of the Ways
	Husserl and Early Analytic Philosophy
	Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. Some Main Problems of Moore Interpretation
	Introduction
	The Interpretation of Moore’s Philosophy: The Usual Suspects
	Notes
	References
6. Russell’s Philosophical Method: How Analytic Philosophy is Shaped By and Perpetuates Its Misinterpretation
	Introduction
	1a Analytic Realism (Logical Atomism): A Revolution
	1b The True Philosophic Method
	2a The Residue of Analysis: “It Seems an Unavoidable Inference”
	2b “Analysis Is the Method of Approximation to Reality”
	3a Knowledge in Philosophy
	3b A Speculative Interest in the Universe
	Notes
	References
7. Analyzing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
	Laying the Groundwork
	Interpreting the Tractatus
	Mainstream Tractatus
	The Tractatus and Analytic Philosophy
	Notes
	References
8. The Later Wittgenstein
	Notes
	References
9. Frank Ramsey and the Entanglement of Analytic Philosophy with Pragmatism
	Introduction
	The Logical Analytic Program
	Ramsey and Russell
	Ramsey and the Tractatus
	Ramsey’s Pragmatist Account of Belief and Truth
	Ramsey’s Influence on the Post-Tractarian Wittgenstein
	Notes
	References
10. From Scientific to Analytic: Remarks on How Logical Positivism Became a Chapter of Analytic Philosophy
	What Was Logical Positivism Before It Was Analytic?
	“Analytic Philosophy” and Analytic Philosophy in America
	First Contact: Logical Positivism as Read by British Analysts
	Back to America: Interpretation and Historical Explanation
	Notes
	References
11. Ernest Nagel’s Naturalism: A Microhistory of the American Reception of Logical Empiricism
	I
	II
	III
	IV
	V
	Notes
	References
12. “One of My Feet Was Still Pretty Firmly Encased in This Boot”: Behaviorism and The Concept of Mind
	1
	2
	3
	4
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
13. Quine: The Last and Greatest Scientific Philosopher
	I
	II
	III
	Notes
	References
14. P. F. Strawson: Ordinary Language Philosophy and Descriptive Metaphysics
	The Linguistic Turn and “Ordinary Language Philosophy”
	P. F. Strawson: The Received View
	A Shooting Star of Conceptual Analysis
	The Rehabilitation of Metaphysics
	Experience, Particulars and Universals
	Scepticism: Transcendental Arguments and Naturalism
	Notes
	References
15. Austin Athwart the Tradition
	Introduction
	Part One: A Beginner Among Beginners
	Part Two: The Plain Person and the Philosopher
	Finis
	Notes
	References
16. Davidson’s Interpretation of Quine’s Radical Translation, and How It Helped Make Analytic Philosophy a Tradition
	Quine’s Radical Translation
	Davidson’s Radical Interpretation
	Interpreting a Tradition
	Notes
	References
17. Dummett’s Dialectics
	Notes
	References
18. On the Traditionalist Conjecture
	Philosophical Fruitfulness, Good Questions, and Satisfactory Answers
	Reconstruction and Tradition
	Narratives, Periodization, and Relevance
	Traditionalist Narratives
	The Problem with (iii)
	The Problem with (i)
	Illustration
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index