Soames Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1

The Dawn of Analysis
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2579-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Soames, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction to the Two Volumes xi

PART ONE:

G. E. MOORE ON ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS 1

CHAPTER 1

Common Sense and Philosophical Analysis 3

CHAPTER 2

Moore on Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge 12

CHAPTER 3

Moore on Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics 34

CHAPTER 4

The Legacies and Lost Opportunities of Moore's Ethics 71

Suggested Further Reading 89

PART TWO:

BERTRAND RUSSELL ON LOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS 91

CHAPTER 5

Logical Form, Grammatical Form, and the Theory of Descriptions 93

CHAPTER 6

Logic and Mathematics: The Logicist Reduction 132

CHAPTER 7

Logical Constructions and the External World 165

CHAPTER 8

Russell's Logical Atomism 182

Suggested Further Reading 194

PART THREE: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN'S TRACTATUS 195

CHAPTER 9

The Metaphysics of the Tractatus 197

CHAPTER 10

Meaning, Truth, and Logic in the Tractatus 214

CHAPTER 11

The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences 234

Suggested Further Reading 254

PART FOUR: LOGICAL POSITIVISM, EMOTIVISM, AND ETHICS 255

CHAPTER 12

The Logical Positivists on Necessity and Apriori Knowledge 257

CHAPTER 13

The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning 271

CHAPTER 14

Emotivism and Its Critics 300

CHAPTER 15

Normative Ethics in the Era of Emotivism: The Anticonsequentialism of Sir David Ross 320

Suggested Further Reading 346

PART FIVE: THE POST-POSITIVIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE EARLY W. V. QUINE 349

CHAPTER 16

The Analytic and the Synthetic, the Necessary and the Possible, the Apriori and the Aposteriori 351

CHAPTER 17

Meaning and Holistic Verificationism 378

Suggested Further Reading 406

Index 409

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Soames is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His other books include Reference and Description (Princeton), Beyond Rigidity, and Understanding Truth.