| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
| Why the question matters | |
| |
| |
| |
| How the question should be approached | |
| |
| |
| |
| The structure and content of the book | |
| |
| |
| |
| Historical survey | |
| |
| |
| |
| Prehistory | |
| |
| |
| |
| First glimmerings: mathematics and logic | |
| |
| |
| |
| The rebellion against idealism | |
| |
| |
| |
| The linguistic turn | |
| |
| |
| |
| Logical constructionism vs conceptual analysis | |
| |
| |
| |
| The collapse of logical positivism | |
| |
| |
| |
| The rehabilitation of metaphysics | |
| |
| |
| |
| From language to mind | |
| |
| |
| |
| Matters of value | |
| |
| |
| |
| Geography and language | |
| |
| |
| |
| Fog over channel - continent cut off! | |
| |
| |
| |
| Vorsprung durch Logik: Germanophone roots of analytic philosophy | |
| |
| |
| |
| British empiricism vs German romanticism | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Anglo-Austrian axis | |
| |
| |
| |
| Contemporary failings of geo-linguistic conceptions | |
| |
| |
| |
| History and historiography | |
| |
| |
| |
| Historiophobia vs intrinsic historicism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Instrumental vs weak historicism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Anachronism vs antiquarianism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hermeneutic equity | |
| |
| |
| |
| Doctrines and topics | |
| |
| |
| |
| The crusade against metaphysics | |
| |
| |
| |
| Language, contextualism and anti-psychologism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Philosophy and science | |
| |
| |
| |
| Topical definitions | |
| |
| |
| |
| Method and style | |
| |
| |
| |
| Putting analysis back into analytic philosophy | |
| |
| |
| |
| The scientific spirit | |
| |
| |
| |
| Making a piecemeal of it | |
| |
| |
| |
| 'Clarity' is not enough! | |
| |
| |
| |
| The voice of reason | |
| |
| |
| |
| Ethics and politics | |
| |
| |
| |
| Does analytic philosophy shun ethics and political theory? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Is analytic philosophy morally neutral and conservative? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Is analytic philosophy progressive and emancipatory? | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Singer affair | |
| |
| |
| |
| An antidote to ideology? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Contested concepts, family resemblances and tradition | |
| |
| |
| |
| An essentially contested concept? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Analytic philosophy as a family resemblance concept | |
| |
| |
| |
| Analytic philosophy as a historical or genetic category | |
| |
| |
| |
| The contours of the analytic tradition | |
| |
| |
| |
| Present and future | |
| |
| |
| |
| Imposters, bunglers and relativists | |
| |
| |
| |
| What, if anything, is wrong with analytic philosophy? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Whither analytic philosophy? | |
| |
| |
| Bibliography | |
| |
| |
| Index | |