Analytic Philosophy
Publisher: Kendall Hunt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dubuque, IN
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 666
ISBN-13: 978-0-7575-8353-0
Table of contents: title: Part I: The analysis of analysis; title: Chapter 1: Analytic philosophy as logical analysis; title: Chapter 2: Properties and non-spatiotemporal existence; title: Part II: Language and thought; title: Chapter 3: What is a language?; title: Chapter 4: Do we think in words?; title: Chapter 5 Russell’s improvements on Frege’s work; title: Chapter 6 Some remarks on logicism and Frege’s  formalization of logic; title: Chapter 7: The relationship between thought and language: literal meaning vs. cognitive content; title: Chapter 8: Putnam’s insight and Burge’s  blunder: semantic externalism vs. content-externalism; title: Chapter 9:  What are propositions and what is truth?; title: Part III: Knowledge and inductive inference; title: Chapter 10: Knowledge; title: Chapter 11: Cartesian skepticism and the birth of epistemology; title: Chapter 12: Skepticism and the justification of inductive inference; title: Chapter 13: Empiricism and its limits; title: Part IV: Necessity, causality, and personal identity; title: Chapter 14: Determinism, randomness, and unpredictability; title: Chapter 15: The compatibilist conception of freedom; title: Chapter 16 Personal and objectual identity; title: Chapter 17: Causality; title: Chapter 18: Modality and non-existence; title: Part V: Ethics and religion; title: Chapter 19: Some fundamental principles relating to ethics.; title: Chapter 20 Emotivism; title: Chapter 21 Moral conventionalism and moral nihilism; title: Chapter 22 The nature of subjecthood and the connection between self-interest and morality; title: Chapter  23  Kant’s ethics and his attempt to identify morality with self-interest; title: Chapter 24:  Hedonism, Egoism, Utilitarianism, and Deontology; title: Chapter 25 Religion; title: Chapter 26: Are we free to choose our own values? Existentialism examined; title: Appendix 1 The rudiments of logic; title: Appendix 2 A list of important terms and principles