This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty, clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism. As an introduction and commentary on Wittgenstein's final major philosophical work, Moyal-Sharrock's book will prove an indispensable guide to the student, scholar and general reader.
Offers a novel, critical account of the origins and development of the dominant school of philosophy in the English-speaking world. This title argues that analytic philosophy has never involved significant agreement on substantive philosophical views, and thus that it has always been in this state of crisis.
An anthology that assembles contributions by analytical philosophers to a broad range of topics. It includes paper given at the 1st International Lauener Symposium on Analytical Philosophy, which accompanied the Presentation of the first Lauener Prize to Patrick Suppes.
This selection of essays on central topics in analytic philosophy offers studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. A recurring question is "what can be expected from a philosophical account of one's understanding of the meaning of something?"
This memoir of Ludwig Wittgenstein was written by his friend Norman Malcolm in 1958. This edition includes the complete text of the 57 letters which Wittgenstein wrote to Malcolm over a period of 11 years. The letters give an insight into how much friendships mattered to Wittgenstein.
Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
This popular selection of Wittgenstein's key writings has now been updated to include new material relevant to recent debates about the philosopher. * Follows the evolution of Wittgenstein's philosophical thought from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus through to the Philosophical Investigations.
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that studies the origin, nature and limits of human knowledge. This book shows how Anglo-American philosophers captivated by the power of modern science and concomitant advances in logic and mathematics mistook knowledge itself to be reducible to the propositions of science and logic.
A study of analytic philosophy in twentieth-century British thought. It explores how philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, AJ Ayer, Gilbert Ryle and Isaiah Berlin believed in a link between German aggression in the twentieth century and the nineteenth-century philosophy of Hegel and Nietzsche.
This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore and Ramsey (and previously published as Cambridge Letters).
Consists of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. Including contributions to Wittgenstein research, this volume contains articles focusing on digital Wittgenstein research and Wittgenstein's role for the understanding of the digital turn.
This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny's classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published. * Widely praised for providing a lucid and historically informed account of Wittgenstein's core philosophical concerns.
In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry thought and comes to some surprising conclusions.
Presents the papers of the 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2005. The papers in this book address the issue of time from a variety of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives in four sections: philosophy of time, time in the physical sciences, time in the social and cultural sciences, temporal logic, and, time in history.
P. F. Strawson has been a major and influential spokesman for ordinary language philosophy throughout the late twentieth century, studying the relationship between common language and the language of formal logic. This is a reissue of his collection of early essays with a new introduction by Professor Strawson.
Diagrams are an essential part of the most diverse processes of communication and cognition. They have become the object of much historical and theoretical work. This title deals with this field of interdisciplinary research. It includes contributions from philosophy, sociology (space syntax), art history, and history of science.
Willard Van Orman Quine was an analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. This book is devoted to defend Quine's indeterminacy of translation doctrine. The author adopts a critical and nuanced approach to Quine's texts, showing that Quine sometimes changed his positions and was not always as clear and consistent.
Challenging mainstream analytic philosophers to reconsider basic assumptions, Baz defends the much maligned ordinary language philosophy as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to current work on philosophical "intuitions, knowledge, and other areas of philosophical difficulty. He both argues for OLP and practices it here.
What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society in Kirchberg. This volume contains the results of this question.
The first book in English to offer a systematic survey of Bolzano's philosophical logic and theory of knowledge, it offers a reconstruction of Bolzano's views on a series of key issues: the analysis of meaning, generality, analyticity, logical consequence, mathematical demonstration and knowledge by virtue of meaning.
Donald Davidson's work has been of seminal importance in the development of analytic philosophy and his views on nature of language, mind and action remain the starting point for many of the central debates in the analytic tradition. This is the introduction to Davidson's philosophy that examines the range of his writings to provide an overview.
Part of the "SCM Briefly" series, which summarizes books by philosophers and theologians, this book provides a summary of Language, Truth and Logic. It also includes line by line analysis, short"es, and a glossary of terms to help students with definitions of philosophical terms.
The British philosopher, Peter Strawson, has helped shape the development of philosophy. This introduction to Strawson's ideas focuses on a selection of Strawson's important texts and examination of the arguments, and contributions to debates, which have done the most to establish Strawson's formidable reputation.
The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. This volume includes articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joelle Proust and Patrick Suppes.
Provides an account of Kripke's philosophy, his major works and ideas. Offering a guide to the important and complex thought of this key philosopher, this title gives a review of his two major works, Naming and Necessity and "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language". It explores how Kripke's ideas often seem to overturn widely accepted views.
The standard view of philosophical methodology is that philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence. Herman Cappelen argues that this claim is false, and reveals how it has encouraged pseudo-problems, presented misguided ideas of what philosophy is, and misled exponents of metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was a philospher, whose influence on 20th-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. This work explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views, and describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them. It also gives an assessment of his influence on thought.
Gottlob Frege is regarded as one of the founders of modern logic and analytic philosophy, indeed as the greatest innovator in logic since Aristotle. This book offers an introduction to Frege's logic, taking the reader directly to the core of his philosophy.
Charles S Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was also the architect of a remarkable theory of signs that continues to puzzle and inspire philosophers. This book presents a rhetorical approach to Peirce's philosophy. It articulates an approach to Peirce's semeiotic through a meticulous reassessment of the role of rhetoric in his work.
Defends Saul Kripke's account against the numerous weighty objections that have been put forward over the years and argues that none of them is decisive. This book shows that many critiques are based on misunderstandings of Kripke's reasoning and that many attacks can be blocked by refining and developing Kripke's position.
The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues against the common assumption that there is one thing called 'action' which all reason-giving explanations of action are geared towards. Sandis shows why all theories concerned with identifying the nature of our 'real' reasons for action fail from the outset.
Bergmann's early philosophical work concerned the foundations of psychology and physics. During the 1960s and 1970s Bergmann had a major impact on contemporary issues in the philosophy and methodology of psychology, attracting students who went on to teach in philosophy and psychology departments of leading universities of the United States.
Philosophers often have tried to either reduce 'disagreeable' objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. This volume includes articles by Alexander Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, James Ladyman, Rohit Parikh, Gerhard Schurz and Peter Simons.
This volume, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Wittgenstein's death, brings together 13 of Crispin Wright's most influential essays on Wittgenstein's later philosophies of language and mind, including the first publication of his Whitehead Lectures given at Harvard in 1996.
Quantum field theory (QFT) - the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics - is the best starting point for analysing the fundamental building blocks of the material world. In this book, the core of the author's investigation consists in the analysis of various ontological interpretations of QFT.
This textbook attempts to fill a gap in the growing area of discourse analysis within the social sciences. It provides the analytical tools with which students and their teachers can understand the complex and often conflicting discourses across a range of social science disciplines.
Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism with analytic philosophy. Robert Brandom investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions (logical, indexical, modal, normative, and intentional, among others) and their use. He offers new ways of thinking about empiricism, naturalism, and functionalism.
Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism with analytic philosophy. Robert Brandom investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions (logical, indexical, modal, normative, and intentional, among others) and their use. He offers new ways of thinking about empiricism, naturalism, and functionalism.