The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical History....Pages 1-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Philosophy and the Tide of History: Bertrand Russell’s Role in the Rise of Analytic Philosophy....Pages 39-59
Taking the Measure of Carnap’s Philosophical Engineering: Metalogic as Metrology....Pages 60-77
Quine and the Aufbau: The Possibility of Objective Knowledge....Pages 78-93
Ryle’s Conceptual Cartography....Pages 94-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Frege, Lotze, and Boole....Pages 113-138
Frege or Dedekind? Towards a Reevaluation of Their Legacies....Pages 139-170
Psychology, Epistemology, and the Problem of the External World: Russell and Before....Pages 171-200
C.I. Lewis and the Analyticity Debate....Pages 201-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction....Pages 231-260
History and the Future of Logical Empiricism....Pages 261-293
What Is the Good of Philosophical History?....Pages 294-325
The Owl of Minerva: Is Analytic Philosophy Moribund?....Pages 326-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-357