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Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1 The Dawn of Analysis

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ISBN-10: 069112244X

ISBN-13: 9780691122441

Edition: 2003

Authors: Scott Soames

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The author contends that the most important advances of analytic philosophy have been showing that philosophical speculation must be grounded in pre-philosophical thought, & understanding & separating the notions of logical consequence, logical truth, necessary truth & apriori truth.
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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Two Volumes
G. E. Moore on Ethics, Epistemology, and Philosophical Analysis
Common Sense and Philosophical Analysis
Moore on Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge
Moore on Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics
The Legacies and Lost Opportunities of Moore's Ethics
Suggested Further Reading
Bertrand Russell on Logical and Linguistic Analysis
Logical Form, Grammatical Form, and the Theory of Descriptions
Logic and Mathematics: The Logicist Reduction
Logical Constructions and the External World
Russell's Logical Atomism
Suggested Further Reading
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus
The Metaphysics of the Tractatus
Meaning, Truth, and Logic in the Tractatus
The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences
Suggested Further Reading
Logical Positivism, Emotivism, and Ethics
The Logical Positivists on Necessity and Apriori Knowledge
The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning
Emotivism and Its Critics
Normative Ethics in the Era of Emotivism: The Anticonsequentialism of Sir David Ross
Suggested Further Reading
The Post-Positivist Perspective of the Early W. V. Quine
The Analytic and the Synthetic, the Necessary and the Possible, the Apriori and the Aposteriori
Meaning and Holistic Verificationism
Suggested Further Reading
Index