The analytic tradition in philosophy / Scott Soames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soames, Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy)--History--20th century.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Analysis (Philosophy)--History--19th century.

Philosophy--History--20th century.

Philosophy.

Philosophy--History--19th century.

History.

Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Analysis (Philosophy).

Philosophy.

Psychology.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014-

Contents:

Volume 1. The founding giants

volume 2. A new vision.

Volume 1. part 1. Frege. Foundations of logic, language, and mathematics ; Critical challenges

part 2. G.E. Moore. Becoming G.E. Moore ; Goodness and the foundations of ethics ; Truth, skepticism, perception, and knowledge ; The mixed legacy and lost opportunities of Moore's Ethics

part 3. Russell. Early Russell : logic, philosophy, and The Principles of Mathematics ; Russell's theory of descriptions: "On denoting" ; Truth, falsity, and judgment ; Russell's logicism ; Our knowledge of the external world ; The philosophy of logical atomism.

Volume 2. part 1. The Tractatus : language, mind, and world. The abbreviated metaphysics of Tractatus ; The single great problem of the Tractatus : propositions ; The logic of Tractatus ; The Tractarian test of intelligibility and its consequences

part 2. A new conception of philosophy : language, logic, and science. The roots of logical empiricism ; Carnap's Aufbau ; The heyday of logical empiricism ; Advances in logic : Gödel, Tarski, Church, and Turing ; Tarski's definition of truth and Carnap's embrace of "semantics" ; Analyticity, necessity, and a priori knowledge ; The rise and fall of the empriricist criterion of meaning

part 3. Is ethics possible? Ethics is science ; Replacing ethics with metaethics : emotivism and its critics

Normative ethics and cognitivist metaethics in the age of emotivism: H.A. Prichard and W.D. Ross.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Founding giants.

Container of: New vision.

ISBN:

9780691160023

0691160023

9780691160030

0691160031

OCLC:

874562378

Publisher Number:

40023439901