Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism Books

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell's Principia era. Chapter 1, 'Introduction and Overview', explains the program's agenda. Inspired by the non-Fregean logicism of Principia Mathematica, it...

This book presents the heritage of the Lvov-Warsaw School from both the historical and the philosophical perspective. The historical view focuses on the beginnings and the dramatic end of the School brought about by the outbreak of World War II. The...

The volume honours Eva Picardi - her philosophical views and interests, as well as her teaching - collecting eighteen essays, some by former students of hers, some by colleagues with whom she discussed and interacted. The themes of the volume encompass...

Bertrand Russell was a central figure in the rise of analytic philosophy, and there are few works in the genre whose influence is comparable to The Principles of Mathematics (1903), a book that established him as a major force in British philosophy...

Foreword: T.J.Diffey Acknowledgements Nelson Goodman Book Abbreviations Questions in Aesthetics: Symbols and their Systems, Linguistic and Non-linguistic Languages, The Extension of Meaning, Art and the Codification of Meaning, Practice and Tradition in...

I was encouraged to read in the Introduction that it treated philosophy of medicine as part of the philosophy of science. But I was a little sceptical on reading that as such it is comprehensive. Couldn't a comprehensive account be written only by an...

In diesem Buch führt Andreas Schönau neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Modelle mit philosophischen Theorien und Konzeptionen der Handlungstheorie aus einer neuartigen Bottom-up-Perspektive zusammen. Damit ermöglicht er einen interdisziplinären...

Faith, Feminism, and Scholarship engages third wave Womanist, Latina, Asian, Black and White feminists discussing their approaches to religious scholarship, teaching strategies, and participation in communal and social activism. The volume looks at major...

In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice beyond consequentialism. He argues that consequentialism as a general theory of rational action fails and that this does not...

Untitled DocumentChaos, Gaia, Eros: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of HistoryThe History of the World According to Chaos TheoryIn this eclectic and interdisciplinary work, chaos pioneer RalphAbraham traces the history of consciousness...

Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind aims to reassess the work of Wittgenstein in terms of its importance to contemporary debates surrounding the philosophy of mind.The first part of this study examines Wittgenstein in the context of current...

In this book, Hawes presents a comprehensive analysis of the philosophical foundations of contemporary English realism. He examines the work of philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore and shows how their ideas were shaped by the intellectual...

The philosopher and psychologist G.F. Stout was the teacher of Moore and Russell around 1894. This book shows that Stout's ideas have played a role in Moore and Russell's development from their early idealism towards analytic realism, where Stout's ideas...

Ethics Lost in Modernity: Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics turns to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a guide to understand the immense success--yet great danger--of bioethics. Matthew Vest traces the story of bioethics since its inception...

If Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is undisputedly the most influential late 18th century philosopher, Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) is increasingly becoming recognized as perhaps the most unjustly neglected early 19th century philosopher. This volume...

This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G. E. Moore's philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore...

During the last 25 years, a large number of publications on the history of analytic philosophy have appeared, significantly more than in the preceding period. As most of these works are by analytically trained authors, it is tempting to speak of a...