Future pasts : the analytic tradition in twentieth-century philosophy / edited by Juliet Floyd, Sanford Shieh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Floyd, Juliet, 1960-

Shieh, Sanford, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xv, 463 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. Drawing together a venerable group of contributors, including John Rawls and Hilary Putnam, this volume explores the historical contexts in which analytic philosophers have worked, revealing multiple discontinuities and misunderstandings as well as a complex interaction between science and philosophical reflection.

Contents:

Introduction / Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh.

Frege's conception if logic / Warren Goldfarb.

Theory and elucidation: the age of the innocence / Joan Weiner.

Bolzano, Frege, and Husserl on reference and object / Dagfinn Føllesdal.

Ernst Mach at the crossroads of twentieth-century philosophy / Jaakko Hintikka.

Truth and propositional unity in early Russell / Thomas Ricketts.

Husserl and the linguistic turn / Charles Parsons.

Number and ascriptions of number in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Juliet Floyd.

Heidegger's response to skepticism in Being and Time / Edward H. Minar.

Confessions of a confirmed extensionalist / W.V. Quine.

Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's Philosophy on mathematics / Michael Friedman.

"The defensible province of philosophy": Quine's 1934 lectures on Carnap / Peter Hylton.

Hans Reichenbach: realist and verificationist / Hilary Putman.

Sure path of a science: Kant in the analytic tradition / Susan Neiman.

Non-negotiable demands: metaphysics, politics and the discourse of needs / Naomi Scheman.

Language as social software / Rohit Parikh.

Silences noises voices / Stanley Cavell.

Long decimals / W.D. Hart.

Meaning, rigidity, and modality / Sanford Shieh.

Epistemology and science in the image of modern philosophy: Rorty on Descartes and Locke / Gary Hatfield.

Formal losses / Gerald E. Sacks.

Afterword: a reminiscence / John Rawls.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-455) and index.

ISBN:

019513916X

OCLC:

43757527