The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical History

   1. Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical History

      • Erich H. Reck

      Pages 1-36

3. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Philosophy and the Tide of History: Bertrand Russell’s Role in the Rise of Analytic Philosophy

      • Stewart Candlish

      Pages 39-59

   3. Taking the Measure of Carnap’s Philosophical Engineering: Metalogic as Metrology

      • Alan Richardson

      Pages 60-77

   4. Quine and the Aufbau: The Possibility of Objective Knowledge

      • Peter Hylton

      Pages 78-93

   5. Ryle’s Conceptual Cartography

      • Julia Tanney

      Pages 94-110

4. Broader Themes

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Frege, Lotze, and Boole

      • Jeremy Heis

      Pages 113-138

   3. Frege or Dedekind? Towards a Reevaluation of Their Legacies

      • Erich H. Reck

      Pages 139-170

   4. Psychology, Epistemology, and the Problem of the External World: Russell and Before

      • Gary Hatfield

      Pages 171-200

   5. C.I. Lewis and the Analyticity Debate

      • Thomas Baldwin

      Pages 201-227

5. Methodological Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction

      • Michael Beaney

      Pages 231-260

   3. History and the Future of Logical Empiricism

      • A. W. Carus

      Pages 261-293

   4. What Is the Good of Philosophical History?

      • Michael Kremer

      Pages 294-325

   5. The Owl of Minerva: Is Analytic Philosophy Moribund?

      • Hans-Johann Glock

      Pages 326-347

6. Back Matter

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During the last 25 years, a large number of publications on the history of analytic philosophy have appeared, significantly more than in the preceding period. As most of these works are by analytically trained authors, it is tempting to speak of a 'historical turn' in analytic philosophy. The present volume constitutes both a contribution to this body of work and a reflection on what is, or might be, achieved in it. The twelve new essays, by an international group of contributors, range from case studies on individual philosophers (Russell, Carnap, Quine, and Ryle) through discussions of broader themes in the history of analytic philosophy (in logic and philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and psychology) to related methodological reflections (on the relationship between doing analytic philosophy and studying the history of philosophy, on various forms of philosophical history, and on their respective benefits).

• Bertrand Russell
• Case Studies
• concept
• construction
• epistemology
• essay
• future
• Gottlob Frege
• history
• history of literature
• history of philosophy
• knowledge
• philosophy
• psychology
• reconstruction

• University of California, Riverside, USA

  Erich H. Reck

THOMAS BALDWIN Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of York, UK MICHAEL BEANEY Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of York, UK STEWART CANDLISH Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia ANDRÉ CARUS Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK HANS-JOHANN GLOCK Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Zürich, Switzerland GARY HATFIELD Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA JEREMY HEIS Assistant Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, USA PETER HYLTON Professor of Philosophy and UIC Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA MICHAEL KREMER Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA ERICH RECK Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA ALAN RICHARDSON Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada JULIA TANNEY Reader in Philosophy of Mind, Department of Philosophy, University of Kent, UK

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