The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1 : the Founding Giants

676 Pages·2014·12.535 MB·English

by  Soames, Scott

The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy
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The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy
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Volume 1
The Founding giAnT s
• Scott SoameS •
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ConTenT s
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Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
PArT o ne: Frege
ChAPTer 1
Foundations of Logic, Language, and Mathematics 3
ChAPTer 2
Critical Challenges 60
PArT Two: g . e. moore
ChAPTer 3
Becoming G. e. Moore 133
ChAPTer 4
Goodness and the Foundations of ethics 172
ChAPTer 5
Truth, Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge 206
ChAPTer 6
The Mixed Legacy and Lost Opportunities of Moore’s ethics 242
PArT Three: russell
ChAPTer 7
early Russell: Logic, Philosophy, and The Principles of Mathematics 263
ChAPTer 8
Russell’s Theory of Descriptions: “On Denoting” 328
ChAPTer 9
Truth, Falsity, and Judgment 413
ChAPTer 10
Russell’s Logicism 473
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ChAPTer 11
Our Knowledge of the external World 535
ChAPTer 12
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism 568
Looking Ahead 631
References 633
Index 647
ACknowledgmenT s
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Ia m grateful to my colleague, Gabriel Uzquiano, for reading and making
many helpful comments on chapters 1, 2, 7, and 10. Thanks also to my
former disseration students Geoff Georgi and Brian Bowman for spotting
many errors in their reading of the entire manuscript. Special credit goes
to the two referees provided by the Princeton University Press, whose ex-
traordinary insight and erudition greatly improved the manuscript, not
least of which by identifying important omissions and pointing me in di-
rections that allowed me to correct them in some cases and compensate
for them in others. I also appreciate the useful feedback from the graduate
students in Philosophy 500 at USC in the fall semesters of 2011 and 2012.