Central works of philosophy. Volume 4, The twentieth century, Moore to Popper / edited by John Shand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shand, John, 1956- editor.

Series:

Central works of philosophy ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( ) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

CENTRAL WORKS OF PHILOSOPHY is a multi-volume set of essays on the core texts of the western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work and clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas. Volume 4 covers the key works of philosophy written in the period 1900–60, which witnessed developments in logical and linguistic analysis far beyond anything dreamt of in the previous history of the subject. The volume includes chapters on central works by the Cambridge philosophers Moore, Russell and Wittgenstein, which together contributed to the emergence of analytic philosophy. The ideas of the Vienna Circle of the 1920s, and the logical positivism of the 1930s and 1940s are explored in chapters dealing with the works of Carnap and Ayer, and the distinctive ideas of the American pragmatists are discussed in a chapter on William James's Pragmatism, which propagated pragmatism by presenting its central tenets in a clear and accessible form. Essays on Husserl's The Idea of Phenomenology, Heidegger's Being and Time, Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception cover the core texts of the continental European traditions of phenomenology and existentialism. Of the linguistic philosophy that dominated the English-speaking world in the immediate postwar years, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and Ryle's The Concept of Mind are discussed in turn. The volume concludes with a chapter on Karl Popper's influential account of the nature of scientific method in his seminal work, The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; The Twentieth Century: Moore to Popper: Introduction; 1. G. E. Moore: Principia Ethica; 2. Edmund Husserl: The Idea of Phenomenology; 3. William James: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking; 4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; 5. Martin Heidegger: Being and Time; 6. Rudolf Carnap: The Logical Structure of the World; 7. Bertrand Russell: An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; 8. Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness; 9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception

10. A. J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic11. Gilbert Ryle: The Concept of Mind; 12. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations; 13. Karl Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-317-48877-6

1-315-47893-5

1-315-47891-9

1-315-47892-7

1-315-71038-2

1-317-48878-4

1-282-92161-4

9786612921612

1-84465-361-7

9781315710389

OCLC:

905984387