(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

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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 areas and figures in analytic philosophy - including Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Gottlob Frege, Carnap, Quine, Davidson, Kripke, Putnam, and many others
Contains explanatory background material to help make clear technical philosophical concepts
Includes listings of suggested further readings
Written in a clear, direct style that presupposes little previous knowledge of philosophy. (From the publisher)

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Preface
Introduction: What is Analytic Philosophy?
Leading Analytic Philosophers
1 Russell and Moore
Empiricism, Mathematics, and Symbolic Logic
Logicism
Russell on Definite Descriptions
G. E. Moore's Philosophy of Common Sense
Moore and Russell on Sense Data
Moore's and Russell's Anti-Hegelianism
Summary
2 Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and Logical Positivism
Introduction
Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Historical Note: The Vienna Circle and their Allies
The Elimination of Metaphysics and the Logical Positivist Program
The Demise of the Vienna Circle
The Influence of the Logical Positivists
3 Responses to Logical Positivism: Quine, Kuhn, and American Pragmatism
Introduction
The Demise of the Verifiability Criterion of Meaningfulness
Quine's Rejection of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Quinean Empiricism without the Dogmas
American Pragmatists after Quine: Nelson Goodman, Richard Rorty, and Hilary Putnam
4 Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy and Later Wittgenstein
Introduction
The Attack on Formalism - Strawson and Ryle
Philosophy of Language - Austin and Wittgenstein
Philosophy of Mind - Ryle, Strawson, and Wittgenstein
The Rejection of Sense Data Theory
The Legacy of Ordinary Language Philosophy
5 Responses to Ordinary Language Philosophy: Logic, Language, and Mind
Part 1: Formal Logic and Philosophy of Language
Godel and Tarski
Davidson
Grice
Carnap - Meaning and Necessity
Chomsky
Part 2: Philosophy of Mind
Functionalism
Objections to Functionalism - Bats and the Chinese Room
Anomalous Monism
The Problem of Mental Causation
6 The Rebirth of Metaphysics
Modal Logic
Possible Worlds
Problems with the Canonical Conception of Possible Worlds
Transworld Identity and Identification
The Modal Version of the Ontological Argument
7 Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds: Kripke, Putnam, and Donnellan
Introduction
The Traditional Theory of Meaning and Reference
Kripke's and Donnellan's Criticism of the Traditional Theory: Names and Descriptions
Natural Kind Terms
Problems for the New Theory of Reference
Applications of the New Theory of Reference to the Philosophy of Mind
The Social, Cultural, and Institutional Basis of Meaning and Reference
8 Ethics and Metaethics in the Analytic Tradition
Introduction
G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica
The Non-Cognitivism of C. L. Stevenson
The Universal Prescriptivism of R. M. Hare
The Return to Substantive Ethics
Questioning the Fact/Value Divide
Peter Singer and Animal Liberation
John Rawls' Theory of Justice
9 Epilogue: Analytic Philosophy Today and Tomorrow
Analytic Philosophy since 1980
What is the Future of Analytic Philosophy?
References
Index