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Notes on: Wittgenstein's Place in 20th C Analytic Philosophy
Roger Bishop Jones
Contents
Preface
1. The Background
1.1 The Origins of Analytic Philosophy
1.2 The Problem Setting Context of the
Tractatus
2. The Achievement of the Tractatus
2.1 Unquestioned Legacy
2.2 Criticisms of Frege and Russell
2.3 The metaphysical picture of the relation of thought language and reality
2.4 The positive account of the propositions of logic
2.5 The critique of metaphysics and the conception of future philosophy as analysis
3. The Impact of the Tractatus: The Vienna Circle
3.1 The Vienna Circle
3.2 Philosophy, analysis, and the scientific world view
3.3 The demolition of metaphysics
3.4 Necessary propositions, conventionalism, and consistent empiricism
3.5 The principle of verification
3.6 The unity of science
4. The Inter-war Years
4.1 Cambridge between the wars
4.2 Wittgenstein in Cambridge
4.3 Oxford between the wars
5. The Achievement of the
Investigations
5.1 The hedgehog and the fox
5.2 The repudiation of analysis
5.3 The nature of philosophy
5.4 Metaphysics
5.5 Philosophy of language and the unity of the
Investigations
5.6 Philosophical psychology
Bibliography
Index
1999-08-26
