Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Introductory Chapters
	Chapter 1: What Is Early Analytic Philosophy, and How to Write Its History?
		1 Early Analytic Philosophy as Continuation of Mainstream German Philosophy
		2 Competing Conceptions
		3 A Brief Overview of the Proto-Analytic Philosophy
		4 The Logocentrism of German Philosophy and the Emergence of the Early Analytic Philosophy
		5 Middle and Late Analytic Philosophy
		6 Descriptive Method of Exploring the History of Analytic Philosophy
		7 Early Analytic Philosophy and the Progress in Philosophy
	Chapter 2: What Is the Logical History of Philosophy?
		1 Do Systematic Philosophers Need a History of Philosophy as Part of Their Discipline?
		2 How Does Analytic Philosophy Relate to the History of Philosophy?
		3 Why Do We Need a History of Philosophy?—Or the Trouble With Philosophy as Such
		4 The History of Philosophy as Systematic Philosophy
		5 The History of Philosophy as Philosophical Propaedeutic
		6 The History of Philosophy as the Study of the Logical Geography of Concepts
		7 What Is the Logical History of Philosophy?
		8 Keeping the Logical History of Philosophy Pure
		9 Epilogue
Part 2: Leibniz and Hegel
	Chapter 3: Leibniz’s Project for Characteristica Universalis and the Early Analytic Philosophy
		1 Leibniz’s Idea of Characteristica Universalis
		2 Orthodox Interpretations of Characteristica Universalis
		3 Alternative Interpretations
		4 New Interpretation of Leibniz’s Project
	Chapter 4: Making Sense of Hegel with the Help of Early Analytic Philosophy
		1 Hegel in the Context of Philosophy of His Time
		2 Hegel and Wittgenstein
		3 Hegel and Frege
		4 Hegel and the Ordinary Language Philosophy
		5 Hegel’s Dialectic and the Method of the Early Analytic Philosophy
		6 Differences between Hegel and the Early Analytic Philosophy
	Chapter 5: Frege and German Philosophical Idealism
		1 Frege and the German Idealists
		2 Anti-mechanicism, Pro-organicism
		3 Frege’s Two Types of Analysis
		4 “Saturatedness”: Chemical or Biological Metaphor?
		5 Life
		6 Logical Voluntarism
		7 Logic of Content
		8 Intensional Logic
Part 3: Hermann Lotze
	Chapter 6: Lotze and the Early Cambridge Analytic Philosophy
		1 Lotze, Not Hegel, Lies at the Bottom of Cambridge Analytic Philosophy
		2 Why Are the British Idealists Believed to Be Hegelian?
		3 Lotze’s Influence on the British Philosophers
		4 Lotze and the Logicalization of Philosophy
		5 Lotze’s Connectionism
		6 Lotze and Russell
		7 Lotze and Moore
		8 Lotze and Wittgenstein
	Chapter 7: Russell’s Debt to Lotze
		1 Russell: Hegelian or Lotzean?
		2 The Main Characteristics of Lotze’s Philosophy: Objectivism and Relationism
		3 Lotze’s Promotion of Philosophical Logic
		4 The Principle of Teleomechanism
		5 Lotze’s First Impact on Russell (1896)
		6 Lotze’s Second Impact on Russell (1897)
		7 Lotze’s Third Impact on Russell (1898)
		8 Russell Follows Lotze’s Philosophical Logic
		9 Russell Misinterprets His Own Philosophical Development
	Chapter 8: Lotze’s Concept of State of Affairs
		1 Hunting States of Affairs
		2 States of Affairs as the Objective Content of Judgments
		3 The Formal Structure of States of Affairs
		4 Non-structural Characteristics of Lotze’s States of Affairs
		5 Two Critics of Lotze’s Judgment
		6 Lotze Abandons the Term State of Affairs: Inscrutability of Logical Forms
		7 How to Translate Sachverhalte in English?
Part 4: Edmund Husserl
	Chapter 9: Edmund Husserl and Bertrand Russell, 1905–1918
		1 Introduction
		2 Husserl and Russell: Exploring Philosophical Fundamentals
		3 Husserl and Russell Advanced Similar Philosophies of Mind and Epistemology
	Chapter 10: Husserl’s Theory of Manifolds in Relation to Russell and Wittgenstein
		1 Introduction
		2 Husserl’s Concept of Manifolds
		3 Theory of Manifolds by Russell and Wittgenstein
	Chapter 11: Wittgenstein’s Indefinables and His Phenomenology
		1 Introduction
		2 The Indefinables as the Data of Academic Philosophy
		3 The Method of Analysis in Phenomenology
Part 5: Two Neglected German Proto-analytic Philosophers
	Chapter 12: G. E. Moore and Johannes Rehmke
		1 Introduction: Moore and German-speaking Philosophy
		2 Moore and Michaltschew
		3 Greifswald Objectivists and the Early Analytic Philosophy
	Chapter 13: Leonard Nelson, Karl Popper, and Early Analytic Philosophy
		1 Leonard Nelson and Analytic Philosophy
		2 Nelson’s Influence on Popper
Part 6: Different Conceptions of Analytic Philosophy
	Chapter 14: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle versus G. E. Moore and Russell
		1 Introduction: Two Concepts of Analytic Philosophy
		2 Differences between Moore and Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle
		3 Where Did the Difference between Moore and Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle Come From?
		4 What Is Directional Analysis?
		5 Criticism of Logical Constructions
		6 The History of Moore’s Idea of Directional Analysis
		7 Its Logic
		8 The Fate of Moore’s Directional Analysis
		9 The Effects of Stebbing’s Paper
		10 The Significance of Stebbing’s Criticism for the Philosophical Development of Wittgenstein
	Chapter 15: Two Concepts of Early Analytic Philosophy
		1 Two Concepts of Philosophy
		2 More on Frege’s and Wittgenstein’s Approach
		3 The Role of Language and of the Analyticity
		4 Chiseling Out the Truths of Philosophical Logic
		5 The Case of the Later Wittgenstein
		6 Differences between Russell and Carnap
		7 Historical Roots of the Two Methods
		8 Connective versus Reductive Analyses
		9 Hybrid Methodologies
		10 Analytic Dogmatism
		11 Criticism of Quine and Soames
	Chapter 16: What Is Analytic Philosophy?
		1 Introduction
		2 Incomplete Definitions
		3 Bertrand Russell’s Definition
		4 Factions of the Early Analytic Philosophy
		5 Analytic Philosophy versus Continental Philosophy
		6 The Possibility for Substantive Renovations of Analytic Philosophy
Notes
	Preface
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
References
Index