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Book SynopsisA collection of new essays by established scholars and younger practitioners exploring why analytic philosophy is now looking towards its history.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical History; Erich H. Reck PART I: CASE STUDIES 1. Philosophy and the Tide of History: Bertrand Russell's Role in the Rise of Analytic Philosophy; Stewart Candlish 2. Taking the Measure of Carnap's Philosophical Engineering: Metalogic as Metrology; Alan Richardson 3. Quine and the Aufbau : The Possibility of Objective Knowledge; Peter Hylton 4. Ryle's Conceptual Cartography; Julia Tanney PART II: BROADER THEMES 5. Frege, Lotze, and Boole; Jeremy Heis 6. Frege or Dedekind? Towards a Reevalution of Their Legacies; Erich H. Reck 7. Psychology, Epistemology, and the Problem of the External World: Russell and Before; Gary Hatfield 8. C. I. Lewis and the Analyticity Debate; Thomas Baldwin PART III: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS 9. Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction; Michael Beaney 10. History and the Future of Logical Empiricism; A. W. Carus 11. What is the Good of Philosophical History?; Michael Kremer 12. The Owl of Minerva: Is Analytic Philosophy Moribund?; Hans-Johann Glock Index
