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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]he book offers a good overview of the most important problems and controversies of analytic philosophy, especially those related to philosophy of language. One will also appreciate the author's constant effort to propose critical remarks and to consider contemporary debates... Soames ... provides us with a stimulating volume for those generally interested by the history and actuality of the analytic tradition."--Alexandre Declos, Metapsychology Online Reviews
Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Origins of the Essays xxv PART ONE Milestones 1 Analytic Philosophy in America (2008) 3 2 Methodology in Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming) 35 3 Language, Meaning, and Information: A Case Study on the Path from Philosophy to Science 60 4 For Want of Cognitively Defined Propositions: A History of Insights and Lost Philosophical Opportunities 71 5 The Place of Willard Van Orman Quine in Analytic Philosophy (2013) 104 6 David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming) 139 7 Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes to the Necessary A Posteriori (2011) 167 PART TWO Historical Problems and Controversies 8 What Is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification? 191 9 No Class: Russell on Contextual Definition and the Elimination of Sets (2008) 200 10 Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute (2009) 207 PART THREE Current Topics 11 Two Versions of Millianism (2012) 231 12 What Are Natural Kinds? (2007) 265 13 Vagueness and the Law (2012) 281 14 Toward a Theory of Legal Interpretation (2012) 299 15 Deferentialism: A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation (2013) 321 Index 343
