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Innovations in the History of Analytical Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Sandra Lapointe

    1. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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  2. Christopher Pincock

    1. Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

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  • Collates the work of a range of well established and more junior scholars to offer fresh perspectives on one of the dominant philosophical traditions
  • Questions some of the standard narratives of analytical philosophy’s past to expand understanding of the discipline
  • Seeks to extend the scope of the history of analytical philosophy to include contemporary topics such as philosophical study of language, mind and metaphysics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy (PIIP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Sandra Lapointe, Christopher Pincock
    Pages 1-23

  4. Logic and Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Russell’s Method of Analysis and the Axioms of Mathematics

      • Lydia Patton
      Pages 105-126

    3. Wittgenstein on Representability and Possibility

      • Colin Johnston
      Pages 127-147

    4. The History and Prehistory of Natural-Language Semantics

      • Daniel W. Harris
      Pages 149-194

  6. Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299
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    2. Russell’s Road to Logicism

      • Jeremy Heis
      Pages 301-332

    3. The History of Algebra’s Impact on the Philosophy of Mathematics

      • Audrey Yap
      Pages 333-358

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 359-365
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About this book

This book offers new perspectives on the history of analytical philosophy, surveying recent scholarship on the philosophical study of mind, language, logic and reality over the course of the last 200 years. Each chapter contributes to a broader engagement with a wider range of figures, topics and disciplines outside of philosophy than has been traditionally associated with the history of analytical philosophy. The book acquaints readers with new aspects of analytical philosophy’s revolutionary past while engaging in a much needed methodological reflection. It questions the meaning associated with talk of 'analytic' philosophy and offers new perspective on its development. It offers original studies on a range of topics – including in the philosophy of language and mind, logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics – and figures whose relevance, when they is not already established as in the case of Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein, are just now beginning to become the topic of mainstream literature: Franz Brentano, William James, Susan Langer as well as the German and British logicians of the nineteenth century. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Sandra Lapointe

  • Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

    Christopher Pincock

About the editors

Sandra Lapointe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Canada. A Commonwealth Alumna and a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, she has published dozens of books and a number of articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy of logic, language and mind. She is a Founding Associate Editor of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy and the founding President of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy.

Christopher Pincock is Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University, USA. His research interests include the history of analytic philosophy, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of Mathematics and Scientific Representation (2012) and a co-editor of Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues (2013).

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