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Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 The Age of Meaning

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ISBN-10: 0691123128

ISBN-13: 9780691123127

Edition: 2003

Authors: Scott Soames

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This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances toward solving the tradition's core problems. Though no broad philosophical position ever achieved lasting dominance, Soames argues that two methodological developments have, over time, remade the philosophical landscape. These are (1) analytic philosophers' hard-won success in understanding, and distinguishing the…    
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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction to Volume 2
Ludwig Wittgenstein'S Philosophical Investigations
Rejection of the Tractarian Conception of Language and Analysis
Rule Following and the Private Language Argument
Suggested Further Reading
Classics of Ordinary Language Philosophy: Truth, Goodness, The mind, and analysis
Ryle's Dilemmas
Ryle's Concept of Mind
Strawson's Performative Theory of Truth
Hare's Performative Theory of Goodness
Suggested Further Reading
More classics of Ordinary Language Philosophy: The Response to Radical Skepticism
Malcolm's Paradigm Case Argument
Austin's Sense and Sensibilia
Suggested Further Reading
Paul Grice and the End of Ordinary language Philosophy
Language Use and the Logic of Conversation
Suggested Further Reading
The Philosophical Naturalism of Willard Van Orman Quine
The Indeterminacy of Translation
Quine's Radical Semantic Eliminativism
Suggested Further Reading
Donald Davidson on Truth and Meaning
Theories of Truth as Theories of Meaning
Truth, Interpretation, and the Alleged Unintelligibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes
Suggested Further Reading
Saul Kripke on Naming and Necessity
Names, Essence, and Possibility
The Necessary Aposteriori
The Contingent Apriori
Natural Kind Terms and Theoretical Identification Statements
Suggested Further Reading
Epilogue
The Era of Specialization
Index