The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

Edited by Michael Beaney

Oxford Handbooks

The first full collective study of the history of analytic philosophy
An essential resource for anyone working on the history of modern philosophy
All essays specially commissioned for this volume
Outstanding international line-up of contributors
Covers Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, and many other thinkers
Includes the most detailed chronology and bibliography to date on the subject
Extensive, in-depth coverage of key areas and themes--will shape the debate for many years to come

The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

Edited by Michael Beaney

Description

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.

The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

Edited by Michael Beaney

Oxford Handbooks

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

The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

Edited by Michael Beaney

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Michael Beaney, University of York

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.

Contributors:

Maria Baghramian, University College Dublin
Thomas Baldwin, University of York
Michael Beaney, University of York
Tyler Burge, University of California, Los Angeles
Stewart Candlish, University of Western Australia
Annalisa Coliva, University of Modena
Sean Crawford, University of Manchester
Nic Damnjanovic, University of Western Australia
Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading/University of Texas at Austin
Cora Diamond, University of Virginia
Julia Driver, Washington University in St. Louis
Juliet Floyd, Boston University
Gottfried Gabriel, University of Jena
Richard Gaskin, University of Liverpool
Hanjo Glock, University of Zurich
Nicholas Griffin, McMaster University
Peter Hacker, Oxford University
Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania
Richard Heck, Brown University
David Hyder, University of Ottawa
Peter Hylton, University of Illinois at Chicago
Andrew Jorgensen, University College Dublin
Mark Kalderon, University College London
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago
Peter Lamarque, University of York
Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta
Robert May, University of California, Davis
Alex Miller, University of Otago
Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto
Jaroslav Peregrin, Charles University, Prague
Erich Reck, University of California, Riverside
Sanford Shieh, Wesleyan University
Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin
John Skorupski, University of St Andrews
David Woodruff Smith, University of California, Irvine
Jamie Tappenden, University of Michigan
Mark Textor, King's College London
Charles Travis, King's College London
Thomas Uebel, University of Manchester
J. Wolff, University College London