Preface = ⅸ
Acknowledgements = xii
List of Abbreviations = xiv
Chapter 1 The Background = 1
1 The origins of analytic philosophy = 1
2 The problem-setting context of the tractatus = 12
Chapter 2 The Achievement of the Tractatus = 22
1 Unquestioned legacy = 22
2 Criticisms of Frege and Russell = 26
3 The metaphysical picture of the relation of thought, language and reality = 29
4 The positive account of the propositions of logic = 32
5 The critique of metaphysics and the conception of future philosophy as analysis = 35
Chapter 3 The Impact of the Tractatus : The Vienna Circle = 39
1 The Vienna Circle = 39
2 Philosophy, analysis, and the scientific world-view = 42
3 The demolition of metaphysics = 44
4 Necessary propositions, conventionalism and consistent empiricism = 45
5 The principle of verification = 50
6 The unity of science = 59
Chapter 4 The Inter-war Years : Cambridge and Oxford = 67
1 Cambridge between the wars = 67
2 Wittgenstein in Cambridge = 76
3 Oxford between the wars = 87
Chapter 5 The Achievement of the Investigations = 97
1 The hedgehog and the fox = 97
2 The repudiation of analysis = 103
3 The nature of philosophy = 110
4 Metaphysics = 117
5 Philosophy of language and the unity of the Investigations = 123
6 Philosophical psychology = 130
Chapter 6 Wittgenstein's Impact upon Post-war Analytic Philosophy = 137
1 Publications and pupils = 138
2 Philosophy at Oxford, 1945-70 = 148
3 Wittgenstein and post-war philosophy at Oxford = 162
Chapter 7 Post-positivism in the United States and Quine's Apostasy = 183
1 The logical positivists in America = 183
2 Quine and Wittgenstein : similarity amidst differences = 189
3 Quine and logical empiricism : the end of analytic philosophy? = 193
4 Quine's progress = 196
5 Quine and Wittgenstein : differences beneath similarities = 207
Chapter 8 The Decline of Analytic Philosophy = 228
1 The critical backlash = 228
2 Criticisms of Wittgenstein = 239
3 The aftermath = 264
Notes = 274
Index = 334
Acknowledgements = xii
List of Abbreviations = xiv
Chapter 1 The Background = 1
1 The origins of analytic philosophy = 1
2 The problem-setting context of the tractatus = 12
Chapter 2 The Achievement of the Tractatus = 22
1 Unquestioned legacy = 22
2 Criticisms of Frege and Russell = 26
3 The metaphysical picture of the relation of thought, language and reality = 29
4 The positive account of the propositions of logic = 32
5 The critique of metaphysics and the conception of future philosophy as analysis = 35
Chapter 3 The Impact of the Tractatus : The Vienna Circle = 39
1 The Vienna Circle = 39
2 Philosophy, analysis, and the scientific world-view = 42
3 The demolition of metaphysics = 44
4 Necessary propositions, conventionalism and consistent empiricism = 45
5 The principle of verification = 50
6 The unity of science = 59
Chapter 4 The Inter-war Years : Cambridge and Oxford = 67
1 Cambridge between the wars = 67
2 Wittgenstein in Cambridge = 76
3 Oxford between the wars = 87
Chapter 5 The Achievement of the Investigations = 97
1 The hedgehog and the fox = 97
2 The repudiation of analysis = 103
3 The nature of philosophy = 110
4 Metaphysics = 117
5 Philosophy of language and the unity of the Investigations = 123
6 Philosophical psychology = 130
Chapter 6 Wittgenstein's Impact upon Post-war Analytic Philosophy = 137
1 Publications and pupils = 138
2 Philosophy at Oxford, 1945-70 = 148
3 Wittgenstein and post-war philosophy at Oxford = 162
Chapter 7 Post-positivism in the United States and Quine's Apostasy = 183
1 The logical positivists in America = 183
2 Quine and Wittgenstein : similarity amidst differences = 189
3 Quine and logical empiricism : the end of analytic philosophy? = 193
4 Quine's progress = 196
5 Quine and Wittgenstein : differences beneath similarities = 207
Chapter 8 The Decline of Analytic Philosophy = 228
1 The critical backlash = 228
2 Criticisms of Wittgenstein = 239
3 The aftermath = 264
Notes = 274
Index = 334