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Ayer, A. J. Philosophy in the Twentieth Century [selective history by a famous practitioner; very readable] Baldwin, Thomas. Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English Since 1945 [picks up where Skorupski — see below — leaves off] Simon Blackburn. Spreading the Word. Groundings in the Philosophy of Language Baldwin, Thomas (ed.) The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945 [large volume of introductory essays ordered by philosophical theme] Coffa, J. Alberto. The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap. To the Vienna Station. [scholarly work on the early days of logical positivism construed as a reaction to Kantian views about science and mathematics; by “semantic” Coffa means roughly ‘linguistic’] Corrado, Michael. The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy. Background and Issues [a very accessible, if slightly dated, text of some key themes] Hacker, P.M.S. Wittgenstein’s Place in C20 Philosophy [cursory but detailed and sweeping narrative by a hard-core Oxford Wittgensteinian] Hylton, Peter. Propositions, Functions, and Analysis. Selected Essays on Russell’sPhilosophy. [superb essays by a well-known Russell scholar] Hylton, Peter. Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy. [the best book on Rusell’s early philosophy; highly recommended] Jones, W.T. and Robert Fogelin, A History of Western Philosophy Vol. V. The C20 to Quine and Derrida, 3 rd ed Kenny, Anthony. A New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 4. Philosophy in the Modern World [highly readable and accessible introduction] Lepore, Ernst and Barry C. Smith (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language [see ‘Part 1: The Historical Context’, for essays on Frege, Wittgenstein and philosophy of language in the C20] 12
Makin, Gideon. The Metaphysicians of Meaning. Russell and Frege on Sense and Denotation. Martin, Robert. The Meaning of Language [a highly accessible and comprehensive text on issues in philosophy of language and logic. Contains lucid elementary discussions of the theories of Frege, Russell, Kripke, function-object analysis, quantifiers, extensionality and nonextensionality; highly recommended] Martinich, A.P. and David Sosa (eds.). A Companion to Analytic Philosophy [short essays on central figures] Passmore, John. One Hundred Years of Philosophy [the first authoritative, astonishingly scholarly and comprehensive and now classic history of late C19/C20 philosophy to circa 1950] Pears, David. Bertrand Russell and the British Tradition in Philosophy Putnam, Hilary. Philosophical Papers, 3 vols. [classic papers on central themes in C20 analytic philosophy by a major living analytic figure who knew Carnap and Reichenbach and was a colleague of Quine’s at Harvard for many years] Rorty, Richard. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [famous critique of analytical philosophy by a neo-pragmatist apostate; claims that the C20’s greatest philosophers are Wittgenstein, Dewey and Heidegger] Ryle, Gilbert (ed.) The Revolution in Philosophy [brief essays by prominent philosophers on more prominent philosophers than themselves] Shanker, Stuart (ed.) Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century. [contains essays on the philosophy of logic, mathematics and physics, as well as logical positivism, Frege and the early Wittgenstein] Shapiro, Stewart (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic [advanced introductory essays] Skorpuski, John. English-Language Philosophy 1750-1945 [selective but detailed and very accessible; elegantly written] Soames, Scott. Philosophical Analysis in the C20. Vol. 1: The Dawn of Analysis Soames, Scott. Philosophical Analysis in the C20. Vol. 2: The Age of Meaning 13
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Page 5 and 6: Learning Outcomes On successful com
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Raz J. (1999) ‘The central confli
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