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References and further reading
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Austin, J.L. (1962) Sense and Sensibilia, ed. G. Warnock, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(Austin uses his analysis of the language of perception to criticize sense-datum theories of perception.)
Ayer, A.J. (1936) Language, Truth and Logic, London: Gollancz.
Ayer, A.J. (1959) Logical Positivism, Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
Baldwin, T.R. (1990) G.E. Moore, London: Routledge.
(Chapters 1 and 2 discuss Moore’s break with idealism and early conception of analysis; in chapter 7 his later conception of philosophical analysis is discussed critically.)
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(Carnap’s statement of the logical positivist thesis that philosophy can only be the logical analysis of language.)
Carnap, R. (1937) The Logical Syntax of Language, trans. A. Smeaton, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
(Carnap’s further development of his logical positivist programme for the analysis of language.)
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(A paper in which Davidson substantially qualifies the conception of a theory of meaning advanced in Davidson 1984.)
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(Evans here argues that the theory of reference for language needs to be situated within a broader understanding of mental content, thus challenging Dummett’s ‘priority of language’ thesis.)
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(Frege’s classic statement of his sense/reference distinction which has become a central feature of analytical philosophy.)
Gibson R. (1988) Enlightened Empiricism, Tampa, FL: University of Southern Florida Press.
(A robust defence of Quine’s sceptical arguments.)
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(A discussion of the idea of linguistic analysis and its development in the period 1950–75; the 1992 edition of Rorty (1967) contains as an afterword a critical discussion (‘Ten Years After’) of this book by Rorty.)
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(An account of the development of Russell’s philosophy over the period 1900–12.)
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(Moore’s critique of the idealist theory of judgment, in which he propounds his analytic programme.)
Moore G.E. (1903) Principia Ethica, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(Moore’s presentation of analytical ethics, resting on the thesis that the concept of intrinsic value is ‘unanalysable’.)
Moore G.E. (1925) ‘A Defence of Common Sense’, in J.H. Muirhead (ed.) Contemporary British Philosophy (second series), London: Allen & Unwin, 193–223; repr. in T. Baldwin (ed.) G.E. Moore: Selected Writings, London: Routledge, 1993, 106–133.
(Contains Moore’s later view that the difficult task for philosophy is not to defend common sense, but to analyse it.)
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(A collection of Quine’s early papers including ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’ in which he launches his radical critique of the analytic/synthetic distinction.)
Quine, W.V. (1960) Word and Object, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
(In chapter 2 Quine launches his notorious thesis of the indeterminacy of translation.)
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(A lucid recent statement by Quine of his views about meaning and evidence.)
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(In chapter 6 Rorty argues that the time has come to move beyond analytical philosophy, and in chapter 8 he describes post-analytical philosophy as the ‘conversation of mankind’.)
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(Russell’s first systematic attempt at a programme of logical analysis.)
Russell, B.A.W. (1905) ‘On Denoting’, Mind 14: 479–493; repr. in Logic and Knowledge, ed. R. Marsh, London: Allen & Unwin, 1956, 41–56.
(Russell’s presentation of his theory of descriptions.)
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(A characteristic expression of Russell’s mature analytic programme in philosophy, especially notable for the priority given to the philosophy of mind over the philosophy of language.)
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(An account of universals and particulars by reference to an account of the roles of subject and predicate in language; but other chapters, especially chapter 2 on ‘Sounds’, show Strawson venturing well beyond analytic inquiries.)
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