Innovations in the History of Analytical Philosophy

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction (Sandra Lapointe, Christopher Pincock)....Pages 1-23 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 The Rise of ‘Analytic Philosophy’: When and How Did People Begin Calling Themselves ‘Analytic Philosophers’? (Greg Frost-Arnold)....Pages 27-67 The Dissonant Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Common Sense in Philosophical Methodology (Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Leon Geerdink)....Pages 69-102 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 Russell’s Method of Analysis and the Axioms of Mathematics (Lydia Patton)....Pages 105-126 Wittgenstein on Representability and Possibility (Colin Johnston)....Pages 127-147 The History and Prehistory of Natural-Language Semantics (Daniel W. Harris)....Pages 149-194 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Brentano’s Concept of Mind: Underlying Nature, Reference-Fixing, and the Mark of the Mental (Uriah Kriegel)....Pages 197-228 Russell on Acquaintance with Spatial Properties: The Significance of James (Alexander Klein)....Pages 229-263 Ontology and Philosophical Methodology in the Early Susanne Langer (Kris McDaniel)....Pages 265-298 Front Matter ....Pages 299-299 Russell’s Road to Logicism (Jeremy Heis)....Pages 301-332 The History of Algebra’s Impact on the Philosophy of Mathematics (Audrey Yap)....Pages 333-358 Back Matter ....Pages 359-365