Analytic Philosophy by Beaney, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents Preface and acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction

Philosophical questions Thought-thinking

1 How many things are there?

Things and kinds of things Introducing Gottlob Frege Objects and concepts Extensions of concepts What are the natural numbers? Can there be a set of all objects? Infinity Beyond infinity So how many things are there?

2 How can we speak of what does not exist?

Existential statements Does a perfect God exist? Introducing Bertrand Russell Russell’s paradox Responding to Russell’s paradox Do average people exist? The theory of descriptions So how can we speak of what does not exist?

3 Do you know what I mean?

Interpretive analysis Introducing G. E. Moore Can ‘good’ be defined’? How can analyses be both correct and informative? Sense and reference So do you know what I mean?

4 Are there limits to what we can say or think?

Some difficulties in saying things Introducing Ludwig Wittgenstein Saying and showing What is it to say something? Sense and senselessness Can nonsense show anything? Is metaphysics nonsense? So are there limits to what we can say or think?

5 How can we think more clearly?

Taking stock Introducing Susan Stebbing A sensible view of metaphysics? Thinking to some purpose Logical thinking Critical thinking So how can we think more clearly?

6 So what is analytic philosophy?

Analysing ‘analysis’ Introducing later analytic philosophy Ordinary language philosophy Ideal language philosophy and scientific philosophy How did analytic philosophy get its name? Analytic and continental philosophy What is wrong with analytic philosophy? So what is good about analytic philosophy?

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