Preface
How to Use Early Analytic Philosophy
Comments on the Text
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introducing Analytic Philosophy
Chapter 2. F.H. Bradley and Monistic Idealism
Background and Commentary
Background
Monistic Idealism
Critique of Relations
Appearance and Reality
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
Appearance and Reality (Selections from Ch. 1-3, 12-14)
Chapter 3. G.E. Moore on Idealism, the Good, and Common Sense
Background and Commentary
Background
Critique of Monistic Idealism
Goodness and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Common Sense and Philosophy
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
"The Refutation of Idealism"
Principia Ethica, Chapter 1
"A Defence of Common Sense"
"Proof an External World"
Chapter 4. Gottlob Frege: Logic and the Philosophy of Language
Background and Commentary
Background
Logic and Logicism
Sense, Reference, and Thoughts
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
"On Sense and Reference"
"The Thought"
Chapter 5. Bertrand Russell on Relations, Descriptions, and Knowledge
Background and Commentary
Background
Monism and Relations
Names and Descriptions
Analysis, Sense Data, and Scientific Philosophy
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
Russell on Monism and Relations (Selections from The Principles of Mathematics and Our Knowledge of the External World)
"On Denoting"
"Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description"
"Logical Atomism"
Chapter 6. E.E. Constance Jones on Language and Logic
Background and Commentary
Background
Developments in Logic
Jones and Russell: the 1910-1911 Debate
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
"Mr. Russell's Objections to Frege's Analysis of Propositions"
"A New Law of Thought"
Chapter 7. Ludwig Wittgenstein on Language and Philosophy
Background and Commentary
Background
Language, Reality, and Philosophy in the Tractatus
After the Tractatus
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Selections)
Chapter 8. Logical Empiricism: Meaning, Metaphysics, and Mathematics
Background and Commentary
Background
Meaning, Verification, and Metaphysics
Ethical Discourse
Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
Hahn, Neurath, and Carnap, "The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle"
Schlick, "Meaning and Verification"
Carnap, "The Elimination of Metaphysics..."
Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic (Selections from Ch. 4, 6)
Chapter 9. Susan Stebbing on Logic, Language, and Analysis
Background and Commentary
Background
Logic and Language
Language and Science
Empiricism and Analysis
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
A Modern Introduction to Logic (Selections from Ch. 1, 24)
Philosophy and the Physicists (Selections from Ch. 3)
"Logical Positivism and Analysis"
Chapter 10. W.V.O Quine on Analyticity and Ontology
Background and Commentary
Background
Analyticity Rejected
Ontological Commitment
Concluding Remarks
Further Reading
Readings
"On What There Is"
"Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
Chapter 11. Analytic Philosophy Since 1950
References
Index
