Contributor
Rorty, Richard.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Description407 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction: Metaphilosophical difficulties of linguistic philosophy / Richard M. Rorty -- PART I. CLASSIC STATEMENTS OF THE THESIS THAT PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS ARE QUESTIONS OF LANGUAGE: 1. The future of philosophy / Moritz Schlick -- 2. On the character of philosophical problems / Rudolf Carnap -- 3. Logical positivism, language, and the reconstruction of metaphysics (in part) / Gustav Bergmann -- 4. Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Rudolf Carnap -- 5. Systematically misleading expressions / Gilbert Ryle -- 6. Philosophical perplexity / John Wisdom -- 7. Moore and ordinary language / Norman Malcolm -- PART II. METAPHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF IDEAL-LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY: 8a. Language analysis and metaphysical inquiry / Irving Copi -- 8b. Two criteria for an ideal language / Gustav Bergmann -- 8c. Reply to Bergmann / Irving Copi -- 9. Russell's philosophy of language (in part) / Max Black -- 10a. Linguistic approaches to philosophical problems / Alice Ambrose -- 10b. Comments on the "proposal theory" of philosophy / Roderick Chisholm -- 11. Language and ontology / James W. Cornman -- 12. Semantic Ascent (from Word and Object) / Willard v. O. Quine -- PART III. METAPHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF ORDINARY-LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY: 13. Philosophers and ordinary language / Roderick Chisholm -- 14. Arguments to meaninglessness: excluded opposites and pardigm cases (from Philosophical Reasoning) / John Passmore -- 15a. Why ordinary language needs reforming / Grover Maxwell, Herbert Feigl -- 15b. When is ordinary language reformed? / Manley Thompson -- 16a. Philosophical discoveries / Richard Hare -- 16b. Do we discover our uses of words? / Paul Henle -- 17. Ascriptivism / Peter Geach -- 18. Uses of language and philosophical problems / Jams W. Cornman -- 19. J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson -- 20a. J.L. Austin / Stuart Hampshire -- 20b. J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson, G. Warnock -- 20c. Austin at criticism / Stanley Cavell -- 21. The interpretation of language; words and concepts / Stuart Hampshire -- PART IV. RECAPITULATIONS, RECONSIDERATIONS, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS: 22. Philosophy and the analysis of language / Dudley Shapere -- 23. Are all philosophical questions questions of language? / Stuart Hampshire -- 24a. The history of analysis / J.O. Urmson -- 24b. Discussion of Urmson's "The history of analysis" (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium) -- 25a. Analysis, science, and metaphysics / P.F. Strawson -- 25b. Discussion of Strawson's "Analysis, science, and metaphysics" (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium) -- 26. Language and reality / Max Black -- 27. The philosophical relevance of linguistic theory / Jerrold J. Katz -- 28. A pre-requisite for rational philosophical discussion / Yehoshua Bar-Hillel -- TWO RETROSPECTIVE ESSAYS BY RICHARD M. RORTY: Ten years after -- Twenty-five years after.
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