Early Analytic Philosophy: An Inclusive Reader With Commentary

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Preface
	How to use Early Analytic Philosophy
	Comments on the text
1 Introducing Analytic Philosophy
	Analytic philosophy: Themes and ideas
	Further reading
2 F. H. Bradley and Monistic Idealism
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Monistic idealism
		Critique of relations
		Appearance and reality
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		Appearance and Reality (selections from Chs 1–3, 12–14)
3 G. E. Moore onIdealism, Goodness, and Common Sense
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Critique of monistic idealism
		Goodness and the naturalistic fallacy
		Common sense and philosophy
		Concluding remarks
	Readings
		“The Refutation of Idealism”
		Principia Ethica, Chapter 1
		“A Defence of Common Sense”
		“Proof of an External World”
4 Gottlob Frege: Logic and the Philosophy of Language
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Logic and logicism
		Sinn, Bedeutung, and thoughts
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		“On Sinn and Bedeutung”
		"The Thought"
5 Bertrand Russell on Relations, Descriptions, and Knowledge
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Monism and relations
		Names and descriptions
		Analysis, sense-data, and scientific philosophy
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		Russell on Monism and Relations (selections from The Principles of Mathematics and Our Knowledge of the External World )
		"On Denoting"
		“Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description”
6 E. E. Constance Jones on Language and Logic
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Developments in logic
		Jones and Russell: The 1910–11 debate
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		“Mr. Russell’s Objections to Frege’s Analysis of Propositions”
		“A New Law of Thought”
7 Ludwig Wittgenstein on Language and Philosophy
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Language, reality, and philosophy in the Tractatus
		After the Tractatus
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (selections)
8 Logical Empiricism: Meaning, Metaphysics, and Mathematics
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Meaning, verification, and the critique of metaphysics
		Ethical discourse
		Philosophy of mathematics and logic
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		Schlick, “Meaning and Verification”
		Carnap, “The Elimination of Metaphysics . . .”
		Ayer , Language, Truth, and Logic (selections from Chs 4, 6)
9 Susan Stebbing on Logic, Language, and Analysis
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Logic and language
		Language and science
		Empiricism and analysis
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		A Modern Introduction to Logic (selections from Chs 1, 24)
		Philosophy and the Physicists (selections from Ch. 3)
		“Logical Positivism and Analysis”
10 W. V. O. Quine on Analyticity and Ontology
	Background and commentary
		Background
		Analyticity rejected
		Ontological commitment
		Concluding remarks
		Further reading
	Readings
		“On What There Is”
		“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
11 Analytic Philosophy Since 1950
References
Index