Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition

Nikolay Milkov is Professor of Philosophy at University of Paderborn, Germany.

Preface

Part I: Introductory chapters
Chapter 1: What is early analytic philosophy and how to write its history?
Chapter 2: What is logical history of philosophy?

Part II: Leibniz and Hegel
Chapter 3: Leibniz’s project for characteristica universalis and the early analytic philosophy
Chapter 4: Making sense of Hegel with the help of early analytic philosophy
Chapter 5: Frege and the German philosophical idealism

Part III: Hermann Lotze
Chapter 6: Lotze and the Cambridge analytic philosophy
Chapter 7: Russell’s debt to Lotze
Chapter 8: Lotze’s concept of states of affairs

Part IV: Edmund Husserl
Chapter 9: Edmund Husserl and Bertrand Russell, 1905–1918
Chapter 10: Husserl’s theory of manifolds in relation to Russell and Wittgenstein
Chapter 11: Wittgenstein’s indefinables and his phenomenology

Part V: Two neglected German proto-analytic philosophers
Chapter 12: G. E. Moore and Johannes Rehmke
Chapter 13: Leonard Nelson, Karl Popper, and early analytic philosophy

Part VI: Different conceptions of analytic philosophy
Chapter 14: Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, vs. Moore and Russell
Chapter 15: Two concepts of early analytic philosophy
Chapter 16: What is analytic philosophy?

References

Index