Philosophy in the twentieth century
By: A.J. Ayer.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
First sentence: One of the difficulties that faces the historian of philosophy is that his subject is not at all clearly demarcated for him.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: pagenum: ix
title: Preface; title: Philosophical Inheritance
pagenum: 1
label: I; title: The Revolt From Hagel
pagenum: 19
label: II; pagenum: 20
title: Bertran Russell; pagenum: 22
title: His Approach to Philosophy; pagenum: 25
title: The Theory of Descriptions and The Theory of Types; pagenum: 31
title: His Theories of Knowledge and of What There Is; pagenum: 40
title: G. E. Moore; pagenum: 41
title: Principia Ethica; pagenum: 48
title: Moore and Prichard; pagenum: 55
title: The Refutation of Idealism; pagenum: 59
title: The Defence of Common Sense; title: Pragmatism
pagenum: 69
label: III; pagenum: 69
title: William James; pagenum: 70
title: The Character of James's Pragmatism; pagenum: 75
title: Radical Empiricism; pagenum: 79
title: James's Theory of Truth; pagenum: 83
title: C. I. Lewis; pagenum: 84
title: His Theories of Knowledge and Meaning; pagenum: 102
title: His Moral Philosophy; title: Wittgenstein, Popper, and the Vienna Circle
pagenum: 108
label: IV; pagenum: 108
title: The Tractatus and its Sequals; pagenum: 121
title: Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath and Rudolph Carnap; pagenum: 131
title: Karl Popper on Induction; pagenum: 134
title: The Consentration on Syntax; pagenum: 136
title: Tarski's Theory of Truth; pagenum: 138
title: The Fate of the Circle; title: Wittgenstein, Carnap and Ryle
pagenum: 142
label: V; pagenum: 142
title: The Later Wittgenstein; pagenum: 157
title: Carnap and Semantics; pagenum: 164
title: Gilbert Ryle and the Concept of Mind; title: Phisicalism
pagenum: 170
label: VI; pagenum: 170
title: Broad on Mind and Matter; pagenum: 178
title: Strawson's Concept of a Person; pagenum: 180
title: Armstrong's Materialism; pagenum: 187
title: Davidson's Argument; pagenum: 189
title: Summary; title: The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood
pagenum: 191
label: VII; pagenum: 192
title: The Influence of Croce; pagenum: 197
title: The Theory of Absolute Presuppositions; pagenum: 205
title: Causality and the Idea of Nature; pagenum: 209
title: The Idea of History; title: Phenomenology and Existentialism
pagenum: 214
label: VIII; pagenum: 214
title: The Foundation in Brentano and Husserl; pagenum: 216
title: Maurice Merleau-Ponty; pagenum: 216
title: His Account of Perception; pagenum: 223
title: On the World as Perceived; pagenum: 226
title: The Early Work of Heidegger and Sartre; title: Later Developments
pagenum: 234
label: IX; pagenum: 234
title: Linguistic Philosophy; pagenum: 234
title: J. L. Austin; pagenum: 239
title: Noam Chomsky; pagenum: 242
title: W. V. Quine; pagenum: 253
title: Nelson Goodman; pagenum: 262
title: Michael Dummett; pagenum: 267
title: Essentialism; pagenum: 271
title: Index