Erich H. Reck - The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy

History of Analytic Philosophy

Series Editor: MichaelBeaney, University of York, UK

Titles include:

Stewart Candlish

THE RUSSELL/BRADLEY DISPUTE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

Siobhan Chapman

SUSAN STEBBING AND THE LANGUAGE OF COMMONSENSE

Annalisa Coliva

MOORE AND WITTGENSTEIN

Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense

George Duke

DUMMETT ON ABSTRACT OBJECTS

Mauro Luiz Engelmann

WITTGENSTEINS PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT

Phenomenology, Grammar, Method, and the Anthropological View

Sbastien Gandon

RUSSELLS UNKNOWN LOGICISM

A Study in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics

Anssi Korhonen

LOGIC AS UNIVERSAL SCIENCE

Russells Early Logicism and Its Philosophical Context

Gregory Landini

FREGES NOTATIONS

What They Are and What They Mean

Sandra Lapointe

BOLZANOS THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

An Introduction

Omar W. Nasim

BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE EDWARDIAN PHILOSOPHERS

Constructing the World

Ulrich Pardey

FREGE ON ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE TRUTH

Douglas Patterson

ALFRED TARSKI

Philosophy of Language and Logic

Erich H. Reck (editor)

THE HISTORICAL TURN IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Graham Stevens

THE THEORY OF DESCRIPTIONS

Mark Textor (editor)

JUDGEMENT AND TRUTH IN EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGY

Nuno Venturinha (editor)

WITTGENSTEIN AFTER HIS NACHLASS

Pierre Wagner (editor)

CARNAPS LOGICAL SYNTAX OF LANGUAGE

Pierre Wagner (editor)

CARNAPS IDEAL OF EXPLICATION AND NATURALISM

Forthcoming:

Andrew Arana and Carlos Alvarez (editors)

ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS

Rosalind Carey

RUSSELL ON MEANING

The Emergence of Scientific Philosophy from the 1920s to the 1940s

Giuseppina DOro and Constantine Sandis (editors)

REASONS AND CAUSES

Causalism and Non-Causalism in the Philosophy of Action

Sandra Lapointe (translator)

Franz Prihonsky

THE NEW ANTI-KANT

Consuelo Preti

THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF ETHICS

The Early Philosophical Development of G.E.Moore

Maria van der Schaar

G.F. STOUT: ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Also by Erich H. Reck

FROM FREGE TO WITTGENSTEIN: PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY (editor, 2002)

FREGES LECTURES ON LOGIC. CARNAPS STUDENT NOTES, 19101914 (co-editor with S. Awodey, 2004)

GOTTLOB FREGE: CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS OF LEADING PHILOSOPHERS, VOLS. 14 (co-editor with M. Beaney, 2005)

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Contents

Erich H. Reck

Stewart Candlish

Alan ichardson

Peter Hylton

Julia Tanney

Jeremy Heis

Erich H. Reck

Gary Hatfield

Thomas Baldwin

Michael Beaney

A.W. Carus

Michael Kremer

Hans-Johann Glock

Series Editors Foreword

During the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy gradually established itself as the dominant tradition in the English-speaking world, and over the last few decades it has taken firm root in many other parts of the world. There has been increasing debate over just what analytic philosophy means, as the movement has ramified into the complex tradition that we know today, but the influence of the concerns, ideas and methods of early analytic philosophy on contemporary thought is indisputable. All this has led to greater self-consciousness among analytic philosophers about the nature and origins of their tradition, and scholarly interest in its historical development and philosophical foundations has blossomed in recent years, with the result that history of analytic philosophy is now recognized as a major field of philosophy in its own right.

The main aim of the series in which the present book appears, the first series of its kind, is to create a venue for work on the history of analytic philosophy, consolidating the area as a major field of philosophy and promoting further research and debate. The history of analytic philosophy is understood broadly as covering the period from the last three decades of the nineteenth century to the start of the twenty-first century, beginning with the work of Frege, Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein, who are generally regarded as its main founders, and the influences upon them, and going right up to the most recent developments. In allowing the history to extend to the present, the aim is to encourage engagement with contemporary debates in philosophy, for example, in showing how the concerns of early analytic philosophy relate to current concerns. In focusing on analytic philosophy, the aim is not to exclude comparisons with other earlier or contemporary traditions, or consideration of figures or themes that some might regard as marginal to the analytic tradition but which also throw light on analytic philosophy. Indeed, a further aim of the series is to deepen our understanding of the broader context in which analytic philosophy developed, by looking, for example, at the roots of analytic philosophy in neo-Kantianism or British idealism, or the connections between analytic philosophy and phenomenology, or discussing the work of philosophers who were important in the development of analytic philosophy but who are now often forgotten.