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Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations book cover

1st Edition

Early Analytic Philosophy Origins and Transformations

Edited By James F. Conant, Gilad Nir Copyright 2025
464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge
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The past few decades have seen considerable interest in the history of analytic philosophy. As this field has developed, complex and provocative questions have emerged about the very nature of analytic philosophy, challenging longstanding assumptions and spawning new research paradigms. In this outstanding collection, an international team of contributors examine these questions and contribute... Read more

Editors' Introduction James Conant and Gilad Nir

Part I: Fregean Themes

1. Frege’s Conception of the Absoluteness of the Logical Category Distinctions Wim Vanrie

2. Why Worry about Weierstrass? Frege on the Paradox of Analysis Martin Gustafsson

3. Fregean Logicism and Quinean Explication Joan Weiner

Part II: Russellian Themes

4. The Doctrine of Internal Relations: Russell’s 1897 Rejection Tyke Nunez

5. Moorean Propositions and Russellian Confusion Peter Hylton

6. Russell on Judgement and the Judging Subject Maria Van der Schaar

7. “My Pragmatism Is Derived from Mr. Russell” Cheryl Misak

Part III: Tractarian Themes

8. “The World Is My World”: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Schopenhauer’s World as Will and Representation Eli Friedlander

9. Death and the Variable: A Logico-Existential Commentary Jonathan Soen

10. The Tractatus and the Debate on the Nature of Relations Jonathan Gombin

11. Thought, Language, and Expression in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Silver Bronzo

Part IV: Later Developments

12. Gilbert Ryle’s Fregean Inheritance Michael Kremer

13. Wittgenstein on Heidegger on the Nothing Maria Balaska

14. Nonsense: A Riddle without Solutions Gilad Nir

15. Some Thoughts about Wittgenstein on Rules Cora Diamond

Appendices

Appendix 1. Review of Geach’s and Black’s Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Frege Gilbert Ryle

Appendix 2. Did Gilbert Ryle Meet Martin Heidegger? Michael Kremer

Index

Biography

James F. Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, USA.

Gilad Nir is a Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

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