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The analytic tradition in philosophy, Scott Soames

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The analytic tradition in philosophy, Scott Soames

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 633-645) and index

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index present

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non fiction

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The analytic tradition in philosophy

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bibliography

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874562378

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Scott Soames

Table Of Contents

Volume 1. Part one: Frege. Foundations of logic, language, and mathematics -- Critical challenges -- Part two: G.E. Moore. Becoming G.E. Moore -- Goodness and the foundations of ethics -- Truth, skepticism, perception, and knowledge -- The mixed legacy and lost opportunities of Moore's Ethics -- Part 3. Russell. Early Russell: logic, philosophy, and The Principles of Mathematics -- Russell's theory of descrptions: "On denoting" -- Truth, falsity, and judgment -- Russell's logicism -- Our knowledge of the external world -- The philosophy of logical atomism. Volume 2. I The Tractatus: Language, Mind, And World. 1 The Abbreviated Metaphysics of the Tractatus 3. 2 The Single Great Problem of the Tractatus: Propositions 24. 3 The Logic of the Tractatus 55. 4 The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences 88. II A New Conception Of Philosophy: Language, Logic, And Science. 5 The Roots of Logical Empiricism 107. 6 Carnap’s Aufbau 129. 7 The Heyday of Logical Empiricism 160. 8 Advances in Logic: Gödel, Tarski, Church, and Turing 199. 9 Tarski’s Definition of Truth and Carnap’s Embrace of "Semantics" 236. 10 Analyticity, Necessity, and A Priori Knowledge 288. 11 The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning 311. III Is Ethics Possible?. 12 Ethics as Science 337. 13 Replacing Ethics with Metaethics: Emotivism and Its Critics 353. 14 Normative Ethics and Cognitivist Metaethics in the Age of Emotivism: H. A. Prichard and W. D. Ross 375

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