Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century I the Dawn ...

[Pages:431]PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS in the

TWENTIETH CENTURY

VOLUME I THE DAWN OF ANALYSIS

Scott Soames

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Philosophical analysis in the twentieth century/Scott Soames.

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Includes bibliographical references and index .

Contents: v.I. The dawn of analysis.

ISBN: 0-691-11573-7 (v. 1: alk. paper)

1. Analysis (Philosophy) 2. Methodology-History-20th century.

3. Philosophy-History-20th century. 1. Title.

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION TO THE Two VOLUMES Xl

PART ONE: G. E. MOORE ON ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY,

AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS 1

CHAPTERl

Common Sense and Philosophical Analysis 3

CHAPTER 2

Moore on Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge 1 2

CHAPTER 3

Moore on Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics 34

CHAPTER 4

The Legacies and Lost Opportunities of Moore's Ethics 7 1 Suggested Further Reading 89

PART TWO: BERTRAND RUSSELL ON LOGICAL

AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS 9 1

CHAPTERS

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

CHAPTERS

Russell's Logical Atomism 182 Suggested Further Reading 194

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PART THREE:

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN'S TRACTATUS 195

CHAPTBR9

The Metaphysics of the Tractatus 197

CHAPTBRIO

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

CHAPTER12

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

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