The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic philosophy, as analytic philosophers examine the foundations of their tradition and question many of the assumptions of their predecessors. This has led to greater historical self-consciousness among analytic philosophers and more scholarly work on the historical contexts in which analytic philosophy developed. This historical turn in analytic philosophy has been gathering pace since the 1990s, and the present volume is the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on the history of analytic philosophy. It contains state-of-the-art contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, all of the contributions specially commissioned. The introductory essays discuss the nature and historiography of analytic philosophy, accompanied by a detailed chronology and bibliography. Part One elucidates the origins of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the work of Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Part Two explains the development of analytic philosophy, from Oxford realism and logical positivism to the most recent work in analytic philosophy, and includes essays on ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy as well as on the areas usually seen as central to analytic philosophy, such as philosophy of language and mind. Part Three explores certain key themes in the history of analytic philosophy.

Auteur

Michael Beaney is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He works on the history of analytic philosophy and on conceptions of analysis in the history of philosophy. He is the author of Frege: Making Sense (Duckworth, 1996), and editor of The Frege Reader (Blackwell, 1997), Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (with Erich Reck; 4 vols., Routledge, 2005), and The Analytic Turn (Routledge, 2007). He is Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Contenu

Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and its Historiography; 1 Michael Beaney: What is analytic philosophy?; 2 Michael Beaney: The historiography of analytic philosophy; 3 Michael Beaney: Chronology of analytic philosophy and its historiography; 4 Michael Beaney: Bibliography of analytic philosophy and its historiography; Part One: The Origins of Analytic Philosophy; 5 Mark Textor: Bolzano's anti-Kantianism: from a priori cognitions to conceptual truths; 6 David Hyder: Time, norms, and structure in nineteenth-century German philosophy of science; 7 Gottfried Gabriel: Frege and the German background to analytic philosophy; 8 John Skorupski: Analytic philosophy, the Analytic school, and British philosophy; 9 Jamie Tappenden: The mathematical and logical background to analytic philosophy; 10 Tyler Burge: Gottlob Frege: some forms of influence; 11 Nicholas Griffin: Russell and Moore's revolt against British idealism; 12 Bernard Linsky: Russell's theory of descriptions and the idea of logical construction; 13 Thomas Baldwin: G. E. Moore and the Cambridge School of Analysis; 14 Michael Kremer: The whole meaning of a book of nonsense: reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus; Part Two: The Development of Analytic Philosophy; 15 Charles Travis and Mark Kalderon: Oxford realism; 16 Thomas Uebel: Early logical empiricism and its reception: the case of the Vienna Circle; 17 Erich H. Reck: Developments in logic: Carnap, Godel and Tarski; 18 Hans-Johann Glock: Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 19 Maria Baghramian and Andrew Jorgensen: Quine, Kripke, and Putnam; 20 Sean Crawford: The myth of logical behaviourism and the origins of the identity theory; 21 Alex Miller: The development of theories of meaning: from Frege to McDowell and beyond; 22 Stewart Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic: Reason, action and the will: the fall and rise of causalism; 23 Peter Simons: Metaphysics in analytic philosophy; 24 Jonathan Dancy: Meta-ethics in the twentieth century; 25 Julia Driver: Normative ethical theory in the twentieth century; 26 Peter Lamarque: Analytic aesthetics; 27 Jonathan Wolff: Analytic political philosophy; Part Three: Themes in the History of Analytic Philosophy; 28 Richard G. Heck, Jr., and Robert May: The function is unsaturated; 29 Richard Gaskin: When logical atomism met the Theaetetus: Ryle on Naming and Saying; 30 Cora Diamond: Reading the Tractatus with G. E. M. Anscombe; 31 Peter Hylton: Ideas of a logically perfect language in analytic philosophy; 32 P. M. S. Hacker: The linguistic turn in analytic philosophy; 33 Gary Hatfield: Perception and sense data; 34 Annalisa Coliva: Scepticism and knowledge: Moore's proof of an external world; 35 Juliet Floyd: The varieties of rigorous experience; 36 Sanford Shieh: Modality; 37 Jaroslav Peregrin: Inferentialism and normativity; 38 Cheryl Misak: Pragmatism and analytic philosophy; 39 David Woodruff Smith: The role of phenomenology in analytic philosophy