Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis

CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION TO THE TWO VOLUMES......Page 12
PART ONE: G. E. MOORE ON ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS......Page 22
CHAPTER 1 Common Sense and Philosophical Analysis......Page 24
CHAPTER 2 Moore on Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge......Page 33
CHAPTER 3 Moore on Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics......Page 55
CHAPTER 4 The Legacies and Lost Opportunities of Moore’s Ethics......Page 92
Suggested Further Reading......Page 110
PART TWO: BERTRAND RUSSELL ON LOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS......Page 112
CHAPTER 5 Logical Form, Grammatical Form, and the Theory of Descriptions......Page 114
CHAPTER 6 Logic and Mathematics: The Logicist Reduction......Page 153
CHAPTER 7 Logical Constructions and the External World......Page 186
CHAPTER 8 Russell’s Logical Atomism......Page 203
Suggested Further Reading......Page 215
PART THREE: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN’S TRACTATUS......Page 216
CHAPTER 9 The Metaphysics of the Tractatus......Page 218
CHAPTER 10 Meaning, Truth, and Logic in the Tractatus......Page 235
CHAPTER 11 The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences......Page 255
Suggested Further Reading......Page 275
PART FOUR: LOGICAL POSITIVISM, EMOTIVISM, AND ETHICS......Page 276
CHAPTER 12 The Logical Positivists on Necessity and Apriori Knowledge......Page 278
CHAPTER 13 The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning......Page 292
CHAPTER 14 Emotivism and Its Critics......Page 321
CHAPTER 15 Normative Ethics in the Era of Emotivism: The Anticonsequentialism of Sir David Ross......Page 341
Suggested Further Reading......Page 367
PART FIVE: THE POST-POSITIVIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE EARLY W. V. QUINE......Page 370
CHAPTER 16 The Analytic and the Synthetic, the Necessary and the Possible, the Apriori and the Aposteriori......Page 372
CHAPTER 17 Meaning and Holistic Verificationism......Page 399
Suggested Further Reading......Page 427
L......Page 430
W......Page 431
Z......Page 432