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Informationen zum Autor A. P. Martinich is Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. David Sosa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-editor, with A. P. Martinich, of the companion volume Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2002). Klappentext A Companion to Analytic Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to over forty of the significant analytic philosophers from the last hundred years. The entries in this Companion are contributed by contemporary philosophers, including some of the most distinguished now living, such as Michael Dummett, Frank Jackson, P.M.S. Hacker, Israel Scheffler, John Searle, Ernest Sosa, and Robert Stalnaker. They discuss the arguments of influential figures in the history of analytic philosophy, among them Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, and Quine. The articles on each philosopher provide clear and extensive analysis of profound and widely encountered concepts such as meaning, truth, knowledge, goodness, and the mind. This volume is a vital resource for anyone interested in analytic philosophy. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Analytic Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to many significant analytic philosophers and concepts of the last hundred years. * Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant analytic philosophers of the last one hundred years. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors viii Introduction 1 A. P. Martinich 1 Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) 6 Michael Dummett 2 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 21 Thomas Baldwin 3 G. E. Moore (1873-1958) 45 Ernest Sosa 4 C. D. Broad (1887-1971) 57 James Van Cleve 5 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) 68 P. M. S. Hacker 6 Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) 94 Sahotra Sarkar 7 Karl Popper (1892-1994) 110 W. H. Newton-Smith 8 Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) 117 Avrum Stroll 9 Alfred Tarski (1902-1983), Alonzo Church (1903-1995), and Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) 124 C. Anthony Anderson 10 Frank P. Ramsey (1903-1930) 139 Brad Armendt 11 Carl G. Hempel (1905-1997) 148 Philip Kitcher 12 Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) 160 Israel Scheffler 13 H. L. A. Hart (1907-1992) 169 Scott Shapiro 14 Charles Stevenson (1908-1979) 175 James Dreier 15 W. V. Quine (1908-2000) 181 Peter Hylton 16 A. J. Ayer (1910-1989) 205 T. L. S. Sprigge 17 J. L. Austin (1911-1960) 218 John R. Searle 18 Norman Malcolm (1911-1990) 231 Carl Ginet 19 Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) 239 Jay F. Rosenberg 20 H. P. Grice (1913-1988) 254 Stephen Neale 21 G. H. von Wright (1916-2003 ) 274 Frederick Stoutland 22 Roderick Chisholm (1916-1999) 281 Richard Foley And Dean Zimmerman 23 Donald Davidson (1917-2003 ) 296 Ernest Lepore 24 G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001) 315 Anselm Müller 25 R. M. Hare (1919-2002 ) 326 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 26 P. F. Strawson (1919- ) 334 P. F. Snowdon 27 Philippa Foot (1920- ) 350 Gavin Lawrence 28 Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921- ) 357 Max Cresswell 29 John Rawls (1921-2002 ) 361 Norman Daniels 30 Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996) 371 Richard Grandy 31 Michael Dummett (1925- ) 378 Alexander Miller 32 Hilary Putnam (1926- ) 393 John Heil 33 David M. Armstong (1926- ) 413 Frank Jackson 34 Noam Chomsky (1928- ) 419 Peter Ludlow 35 Ri...
