Analytic Philosophy

Aaron Preston is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Valparaiso University. He is the author of Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion (2010) and a number of articles on the history and historiography of analytic philosophy and on the philosophy of religion.

Chapter 1: Editor’s Introduction- Aaron Preston Chapter 2: Idealism and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Moore interprets Kant and Bradley – Peter Hylton Chapter 3: The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy - Scott Soames Chapter 4: Russell, Ryle and Phenomenology: An Alternative Parsing of the Ways - James Chase and Jack Reynolds Chapter 5: Some Main Problems of Moore Interpretation - Consuelo Preti Chapter 6 : How Interpretations of Russell on Logic and Philosophical Method Have Affected Analytic Philosophy’s Self-Understanding - Rosalind Carey Chapter 7: Analyzing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus - Anat Biletzki Chapter 8: The Later Wittgenstein - Duncan Richter Chapter 9: Frank Ramsey and the Entanglement of Analytic Philosophy with Pragmatism – Cheryl Misak Chapter 10: From scientific to analytic: Remarks on how logical positivism became a chapter of analytic philosophy - Alan Richardson Chapter 11: Ernest Nagel’s Naturalism: A Microhistory of the American Reception of Logical Empiricism - Christopher Pincock Chapter 12: One of my feet was still pretty firmly encased in this boot: Behaviorism and The Concept of Mind - Michael Kremer Chapter 13: Quine: The Last and Greatest Scientific Philosopher- Sean Morris Chapter 14: P.F. Strawson: Ordinary Language Philosophy and Descriptive Metaphysics - Hans Johann Glock Chapter 15: Austin Athwart the Tradition – Kelley Dean Jolley Chapter 16: Davidson’s Interpretation of Quine’s Radical Translation, and How It Helped Make Analytic Philosophy a Tradition - Lee Braver Chapter 17: Dummett’s Dialectics – Anat Matar Chapter 18: On the Traditionalist Conjecture -