Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology

This second edition of Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology isa comprehensive and authoritative collection of the mostinfluential readings in analytic philosophy written over the pasthundred years. In addition to maintaining the first edition′scoverage of seminal writings and the latest works on the philosophyof language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics,and methodology, it features nine additional chapters, includingtreatment of externalism in philosophy of mind by Tyler Burge andJerry Fodor, and an important treatment of perception by JohnMcDowell. Other featured authors include Gottlob Frege, BertrandRussell, W. V. Quine, David Lewis, Thomas Nagel, John Searle,Donald Davidson, and Bernard Williams. With its breadth of scopeand expert selection of the best classic and cutting–edge writings,this edition represents an invaluable and essential resource foranyone interested in twentieth–century analytic philosophy.



Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I :Philosophy of Language.

1 On Sense and Reference (Gottlob Frege).

2 Thought (Gottlob Frege.

3 On Denoting (Bertrand Russell).

4 On Referring (P. F. Strawson).

5 Meaning (H. P. Grice).

6 Truth and Meaning (Donald Davidson).

7 Identity and Necessity (Saul Kripke).

8 Meaning and Reference (Hilary Putnam).

Further Reading in Philosophy of Language.

Part II: Metaphysics.

9 On the Relations of Universals andParticulars (Bertrand Russell).

10 From the Tractatus Logico–Philosophicus(LudwigWittgenstein).

11 Particular and General (P. F. Strawson).

12 On What There Is (W. V. Quine).

13 The Identity of Indiscernibles (Max Black).

Further Reading in Metaphysics.

Part III: Epistemology.

14 Proof of an External World (E. Moore).

15 From On Certainty:( Ludwig Wittgenstein).

16 Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge byDescription (Bertrand Russell).

17 The Problem of the Criterion (RoderickChisholm).

18 Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (EdmundGettier).

19 Studies in the Logic of Explanation (Carl Hempeland Paul Oppenheim).

20 The New Riddle of Induction (NelsonGoodman).

21 Epistemology Naturalized (W. V. Quine).

22 Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge (JohnMcDowell).

Further Reading in Epistemology.

Part IV: Philosophy of Mind.

23 Sensations and Brain Processes (J. J. C.Smart).

24 The Nature of Mental States (Hilary Putnam).

25 Sense and Sensibilia(J. L. Austin).

26 Mental Events (Donald Davidson).

27 What is it Like to Be a Bat? (Thomas Nagel).

28 Mad Pain and Martian Pain (David Lewis).

29 Can Computers Think? (John Searle).

30 Other Bodies (Tyler Burge).

31 Individualism and Supervenience (JerryFodor).

Further Reading in Philosophy of Mind.

Part V: Freedom and Personal Identity.

32 The Conceivability of Mechanism (NormalMalcolm).

33 Freedom and Resentment (P. F. Strawson).

34 Human Freedom and Self (Roderick Chisholm).

35 Alternative Possibilities and MoralResponsibility (Harry Frankfurt).

36 The Self and the Future (Bernard Williams).

37 Personal Identity (Derek Parfit).

38 Action, Reasons, and Causes (DonaldDavidson).

Further Reading in Freedom and Personal Identity.

Part VI :Ethics.

39 The Subject Matter of Ethics (G. E. Moore).

40 The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms (CharlesStevenson).

41 Justice as Fairness (John Rawls).

42 Modern Moral Philosophy (G. E. M. Anscombe).

43 Morality as a System of HypotheticalImperatives (Philippa Foot).

Further Reading in Ethics.

Part VII: Methodology. 

44 The Elimination of Metaphysics (A. J. Ayer).

45 Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (RudolfCarnap).

46 Two Dogmas of Empiricism (W. V. Quine).

47 In Defense of a Dogma (H. P. Grice and P. F.Strawson).

48 Philosophy and the Scientific Image ofMan (Wilfrid Sellars).

49 The Blue and the Brown Books(Ludwig Wittgenstein).

Further Reading in Methodology.

Index.

A. P. Martinich is Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professorin Philosophy and Professor of History and Government at theUniversity of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of 15books, including The Philosophy of Language (5th edn., 2007)and A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (edited with DavidSosa, 2001).

David Sosa is Professor and Chair in the Department ofPhilosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.