The Analytic Turn - Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy

305 Pages·2007·2.12 MB·English

by  Michael Beaney

The Analytic Turn
One of the most important developments in twentieth-century philosophy –
arguably the most important development – was the rise of analytic philo-
sophy. In recent years there has been growing interest in the history of
analytic philosophy and increasing debate over what exactly ‘analytic phi-
losophy’ means. The name suggests that analysis is accorded a central role
in its methodology, and one might indeed talk of an ’analytic turn’ as
having taken place in giving rise to analytic philosophy. But this analytic
turn was a complex event, and studies in the history of analytic philosophy
showthattherearemanyconceptionsofanalysisinplay,bothexplicitlyand
implicitly. This volume sheds light on these conceptions, particularly in the
early phases of the history of analytic philosophy, and compares them with
the methodology of phenomenology, one of the main rival traditions in
twentieth-century philosophy. Here, too, one might speak of an ‘analytic
turn’ as having taken place, and the relationship between the analytic and
phenomenological traditions is a further theme of the volume.
Part I explores the work of Frege and Russell, two of the founders of
analytic philosophy, explaining the development of their work and some of
the similarities and differences. Part II contains essays on Wittgenstein and
other philosophers, elucidating the shift in the second phase of analytic
philosophy from broadly decompositional and reductive conceptions of
analysis to explicatory and connective conceptions. Part III focuses on
Bolzano and Husserl, clarifying their methodology and some of the rela-
tionshipswith methodologies in the analytic tradition.
This collection of essays, with contributions from leading philosophers in
both the analytic and phenomenological traditions, and an introductory
overview provided by the editor, will be welcomed by analytic philosophers,
phenomenologists, and anyone interested in the history of philosophy, and
of twentieth-century philosophy, in particular.
Michael Beaney is Reader in Philosophy at the Universityof York, UK.
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The Analytic Turn
Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy
and Phenomenology
Edited by Michael Beaney
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
1 The analytic turn in early twentieth-century philosophy 1
MICHAELBEANEY
Part I
Frege and Russell: decompositional and transformative analysis 31
2 Frege–Russell numbers: analysis or explication? 33
ERICHH.RECK
3 Analysis and abstraction principles in Russell and Frege 51
JAMESLEVINE
4 Some remarks on Russell’s early decompositional style of analysis 75
NICHOLASGRIFFIN
5 ‘On Denoting’ and the idea of a logically perfect language 91
PETERHYLTON
6 Logical analysis and logical construction 107
BERNARDLINSKY
Part II
Wittgenstein and other philosophers: connective and explicatory
analysis 123
7 Analytic philosophy: beyond the linguistic turn and back again 125
PETERHACKER
8 Kant, Wittgenstein and the fate of analysis 142
ROBERTHANNA
viii Contents
9 Complete analysis and clarificatory analysis in Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus 164
DAWNM.PHILLIPS
10 C.I. Lewis: pragmatism and analysis 178
THOMASBALDWIN
11 Conceptions of analysis in the early analytic and
phenomenological traditions: some comparisons and relationships 196
MICHAELBEANEY
Part III
Bolzano and Husserl: semantic, conceptual and phenomenological
analysis 217
12 Bolzano’s semantics and his critique of the decompositional
conception of analysis 219
SANDRALAPOINTE
13 Edmund Husserl’s methodology of concept clarification 235
DERMOTMORAN
14 The method of analysis and the idea of pure philosophy in
Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology 257
LEILAHAAPARANTA
15 Conceptual analysis in phenomenology and ordinary language
philosophy 270
AMIEL.THOMASSON
Index 285
Contributors
Thomas Baldwin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He
was educated at Cambridge, where he took his MA and PhD. Previous
postsincludelectureshipsatMakerereUniversity(Uganda)andCambridge.
Publications include: (monographs) G.E. Moore (Routledge, 1990), Con-
temporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945 (Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 2001); (edited volumes) revised edition of Principia Ethica
by G.E. Moore (Cambridge University Press, 1993); The Cambridge
History of Philosophy 1870–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2003);
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings (Routledge, 2003); Reading
Merleau-Ponty (Routledge, 2007). He is currently editor of Mind.
Michael Beaney is Reader in Philosophy at the University of York. He was
educated at Oxford, where he took his BA, BPhil and DPhil. Previous
postsincludeaSeniorLectureshipattheOpenUniversity,Alexandervon
Humboldt Research Fellowships at the Universities of Erlangen-Nu¨rn-
berg and Jena, and lectureships at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds,
London (Birkbeck College) and Sheffield. He is authorof Frege: Making
Sense(Duckworth,1996),editorofTheFregeReader(Blackwell,1997)and
co-editor(withErichReck)ofGottlobFrege:CriticalAssessmentsofLeading
Philosophers (4 volumes, Routledge, 2005), and has also published a
numberofpapersonconceptionsofanalysisinthehistoryofphilosophy.
Nicholas Griffin is Director of the Bertrand Russell Centre at McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he holds a Canada Research Chair
inPhilosophy.HehaswrittenwidelyonRussellandistheauthorofRussell’s
Idealist Apprenticeship (Oxford University Press, 1991), the editor of two
volumes of Russell’s Selected Letters (Routledge, 1992, 2001) and of The
Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell (Cambridge, 2003), and Gen-
eral Editorof The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (Routledge).
Leila Haaparanta is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tampere,
Finland. She was educated at the University of Helsinki, where she took
herMAandPhDdegrees.SheisalsoDocentattheUniversityofHelsinki.
Previous posts include research and teaching positions at the University