Early Analytic Philosophy

Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations will be of great interest to those studying and researching the history of twentieth-century philosophy, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of language and logic.

James F. Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, USA. Gilad Nir is a Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Editors' Introduction James Conant and Gilad Nir Part I: Fregean Themes 1. Frege's Conception of the Absoluteness of the Logical Category Distinctions Wim Vanrie 2. Why Worry about Weierstrass? Frege on the Paradox of Analysis Martin Gustafsson 3. Fregean Logicism and Quinean Explication Joan Weiner Part II: Russellian Themes 4. The Doctrine of Internal Relations: Russell's 1897 Rejection Tyke Nunez 5. Moorean Propositions and Russellian Confusion Peter Hylton 6. Russell on Judgement and the Judging Subject Maria Van der Schaar 7. "My Pragmatism Is Derived from Mr. Russell" Cheryl Misak Part III: Tractarian Themes 8. "The World Is My World": Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation Eli Friedlander 9. Death and the Variable: A Logico-Existential Commentary Jonathan Soen 10. The Tractatus and the Debate on the Nature of Relations Jonathan Gombin 11. Thought, Language, and Expression in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Silver Bronzo Part IV: Later Developments 12. Gilbert Ryle's Fregean Inheritance Michael Kremer 13. Wittgenstein on Heidegger on the Nothing Maria Balaska 14. Nonsense: A Riddle without Solutions Gilad Nir 15. Some Thoughts about Wittgenstein on Rules Cora Diamond Appendices Appendix 1. Review of Geach's and Black's Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Frege Gilbert Ryle Appendix 2. Did Gilbert Ryle Meet Martin Heidegger? Michael Kremer Index