A brief history of analytic philosophy : from Russell to Rawls / by Stephen P. Schwartz.

"A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century. Features coverage of all the major subject ar...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Steve, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: what is analytic philosophy
  • 1. Russell and Moore
  • 2. Wittgenstein, The Vienna Circle, and Logical Positivism
  • 3. Responses to Logical Positivism, Quine, Kuhn, and American Pragmatism
  • 4. Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy and Later Wittgenstein
  • 5. Responses to Ordinary Language Philosophy: Logic, Language, and Mind
  • 6. The Rebirth of Metaphysics
  • 7. Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds: Kripke, Putman, and Donnellan
  • 8. Ethics and Metaethics in the Analytic Tradition
  • 9. Epilogue: Analytic Philosophy Today and Tomorrow.