The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy by Dainton, Barry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-title Series Title Contents Acknowledgments Overview Preface List of Contributors Part I: History, Methods, and Problems

1 A Different World 2 From Idealism to a Realistic (Platonic) Pluralism 3 Principia Ethica 4 Principles and Paradox 5 Frege 6 On Denoting, Acquaintance, and Construction 7 Wittgenstein and the Tractatus 8 The Vienna Circle and its “Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung” 9 Later Wittgenstein 10 Quine 11 Oxford and Ordinary Language 12 Developments in Ethics 13 Davidson 14 Kripke and Putnam 15 Analytic Philosophy of Mind

15.1 More Recent Work

Appendix: A Simple Introduction to Tarski’s Theory of Truth Notes

Part II: Current Research and Issues

Introduction to Part II 16 Mathematics and Logic 17 Philosophy and Language

1 Introduction 2 The Nature of Linguistic Phenomena 3 The Naïve Semantic Picture 4 Uttering Sentences 5 From Uttering to Meaning 6 Saying and Meaning 7 Grice’s Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics 8 Beyond Grice’s Distinction 9 A More Radical Revision to Grice’s Picture 10 Contextualism 11 Against Contextualism 12 Semantic Minimalism 13 Nonsentential Assertions

18 Meaning, Normativity, and Naturalism

1 Kripke’s Skeptical Paradox 2 Straight and Skeptical Solutions 3 Wittgenstein on Dispositions 4 Dispositions and Normativity 5 Can Dispositionalism Be Rescued? 6 Conclusion

19 Philosophy of Science

1 Scientific Methodology 2 The Metaphysics of Science 3 The Epistemology of Science 4 The Philosophy of the Sciences

20 Philosophy of Physics

1 What Are Physics and the Philosophy of Physics? 2 Newtonian Mechanics 3 Statistical Mechanics and Time’s Arrows 4 Theories of Relativity 5 Quantum Mechanics 6 Conclusion

21 Causation

1 Introduction 2 Hume and Russell 3 Humeanism and Its Critics 4 Some Theories of Causation 5 Further Issues

22 Metaphysics

Part 1 Identity Part 2 Change Part 3 Modality

23 Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness, Intentionality and Ignorance

1 Introduction 2 Responding to Our Inner Cartesian 3 The Problem of Consciousness 4 The Epistemic Response to the Consciousness Problem 5 The Problem of the Problem of Intentionality 6 The Descriptive/Foundational Distinction 7 From Language to Mind 8 The Intentionality Problem and Descriptive Psychology 9 The Intentionality Problem and Foundational Psychology 10 The Problem of Self-knowledge

24 Personal Identity: Are We Ontological Trash?

1 What is the Proper Method in (the) Philosophy (of Personal Identity)? 2 Do We Have the Persistence Conditions of Organisms? 3 The Brain-transplanting Intuition 4 Remnant Persons 5 Really Gruesome Guillotining 6 Are We Embodied Minds? 7 Why Is It So Bad to Be Trash? 8 Must We Then Be Feckless?

25 Free Will

1 Free Will and Responsibility 2 Alternative Possibilities 3 Fatalism 4 Determinism and the Consequence Argument 5 Libertarianism and Control 6 Semi-compatibilism and the Manipulation Argument 7 Traditional Compatibilism and the Conditional Analysis

26 Knowledge

1 Skepticism 2 Knowledge Attributions 3 The Nature of Knowledge 4 The Value of Knowledge

27 The Philosophy of Perception: An Introduction

1 The Importance of Perception 2 The Philosophy of Perception 3 The Sense-datum Theory 4 Disjunctivism 5 Intentionalism 6 Conceptual Issues 7 Conclusion

28 Practical Reasons: The Problem of Gridlock

1 A Framework 2 Gridlock 3 Coda: A Focus on Source?

29 Political Obligation, and the Site and Scope of Justice

1 Obligation and Natural Duties 2 The Site of Justice 3 The Scope of Justice 4 Conclusion

Part III: New Directions in Analytic Philosophy

30 Coda A: What is Analytic Philosophy?

1 Specialization and Science 2 Mind and Consciousness 3 Analytic Metaphysics 4 Rising Self-consciousness 5 Crisis?

31 Coda B: Analytic versus Continental

Notes

Chronology Timeline of Individual Philosophers A–Z of Key Terms and Concepts Resources Annotated Bibliography Bibliography Author Index Subject Index Copyright