Soames Analytic Philosophy in America

And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5046-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Soames, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ix

Origins of the Essays xxv

PART ONE Milestones

1 Analytic Philosophy in America (2008) 3

2 Methodology in Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming) 35

3 Language, Meaning, and Information: A Case Study on the Path from Philosophy to Science 60

4 For Want of Cognitively Defined Propositions: A History of Insights and Lost Philosophical Opportunities 71

5 The Place of Willard Van Orman Quine in Analytic Philosophy (2013) 104

6 David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming) 139

7 Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes to the Necessary A Posteriori (2011) 167

PART TWO Historical Problems and Controversies

8 What Is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification? 191

9 No Class: Russell on Contextual Definition and the Elimination of Sets (2008) 200

10 Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute (2009) 207

PART THREE Current Topics

11 Two Versions of Millianism (2012) 231

12 What Are Natural Kinds? (2007) 265

13 Vagueness and the Law (2012) 281

14 Toward a Theory of Legal Interpretation (2012) 299

15 Deferentialism: A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation (2013) 321

Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Soames is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Philosophy of Language, What Is Meaning?, Reference and Description, the two-volume Philosophical Essays, and the two-volume Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (all Princeton).