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This book offers new perspectives on the history of analytical philosophy, surveying recent scholarship on the philosophical study of mind, language, logic and reality over the course of the last 200 years. Each chapter contributes to a broader engagement with a wider range of figures, topics and disciplines outside of philosophy than has been traditionally associated with the history of analytical philosophy. The book acquaints readers with new aspects of analytical philosophy's revolutionary past while engaging in a much needed methodological reflection. It questions the meaning associated with talk of 'analytic' philosophy and offers new perspective on its development. It offers original studies on a range of topics - including in the philosophy of language and mind, logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics - and figures whose relevance, when they is not already established as in the case of Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein, are just now beginning to become the topic of mainstream literature: Franz Brentano, William James, Susan Langer as well as the German and British logicians of the nineteenth century.
List of contents
Introduction; Sandra Lapointe and Christopher Pincock.- Part I. Aspects of analytic philosophy.- 2. The rise of 'analytic philosophy'; Greg Frost-Arnold.- 3. The dissonant origins of analytic philosophy; Catarina Dutilh Novaes & Leon Geerdink.- Part II. Logic and Language.- 4. Russell's method of analysis and the axioms of mathematics; Lydia Patton.- 5. Wittgenstein on representability and possibility; Colin Johnston.- 6. The history and prehistory of natural language semantics; Daniel W. Harris.- Part III. Ontology and Mind.- 7. Brentano's concept of mind; Uriah Kriegel.- 8. Russell on acquaintance with spatial properties; Alexander Klein.- 9. Ontology and philosophical methodology in the early Susanne Langer; Kris McDaniel.- Part IV. Mathematics.- 10. Russell's road to logicism; Jeremy Heis.- 11. The history of algebra's impact on the philosophy of mathematics; Audrey Yap.- Index.
About the author
Sandra Lapointe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Canada. A Commonwealth Alumna and a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, she has published dozens of books and a number of articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy of logic, language and mind. She is a Founding Associate Editor of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy and the founding President of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy.
Christopher Pincock is Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University, USA. His research interests include the history of analytic philosophy, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of Mathematics and Scientific Representation (2012) and a co-editor of Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues (2013).
Summary
This book offers new perspectives on the history of analytical philosophy, surveying recent scholarship on the philosophical study of mind, language, logic and reality over the course of the last 200 years. Each chapter contributes to a broader engagement with a wider range of figures, topics and disciplines outside of philosophy than has been traditionally associated with the history of analytical philosophy. The book acquaints readers with new aspects of analytical philosophy’s revolutionary past while engaging in a much needed methodological reflection. It questions the meaning associated with talk of 'analytic' philosophy and offers new perspective on its development. It offers original studies on a range of topics – including in the philosophy of language and mind, logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics – and figures whose relevance, when they is not already established as in the case of Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein, are just now beginning to become the topic of mainstream literature: Franz Brentano, William James, Susan Langer as well as the German and British logicians of the nineteenth century.
