Central Works Of Philosophy Volume 4: The Twentieth Century: Moore To Popper (v. 4)

Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpieces of the western philosophical canon. The period, 1900-60, which this volume covers, witnessed changes in logical and linguistic analysis far beyond anything dreamt of in the previous history of the subject. The volume begins with chapters on the key texts of the Cambridge philosophers, Moore, Russell and Wittgenstein, which together marked the emergence of "analytical" philosophy. The Vienna Circle of the 1920s, and the development of logical positivism in the 1930s and 1940s are represented by chapters on two fundamental works by Carnap and Ayer. William James's Pragmatism, which formulated pragmatism's epistemology and made it known throughout the world represents in the volume the distinctive ideas of the American pragmatists. Essays on Husserl's The Idea of Phenomenology, Heidegger's Being and Time, Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception cover the core texts of the hugely significant phenomenological movement. Of the linguistic philosophy that dominated the English-speaking world in the immediate postwar years, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and Ryle's The Concept of the Mind are discussed in turn. The volume concludes with Karl Popper's influential account of the nature of science.. Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 8 Preface......Page 12 The twentieth century: Moore to Popper: Introduction......Page 20 1. G. E. Moore: Principia Ethica......Page 39 2. Edmund Husserl: The Idea of Phenomenology......Page 57 3. William James: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking......Page 73 4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus......Page 90 5. Martin Heidegger: Being and Time......Page 111 6. Rudolf Carnap: The Logical Structure of the World......Page 130 7. Bertrand Russell: An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth......Page 153 8. Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness......Page 174 9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception......Page 196 10. A. J. Ayer: Language, Truth and Logic......Page 214 11. Gilbert Ryle: The Concept of Mind......Page 233 12. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations......Page 258 13. Karl Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery......Page 281 Untitled......Page 306 Volume 1 gives readers a deep understanding of the contribution that the ancient Greek and medieval philosophers have made to contemporary philosophical debate. From Plato to William of Ockham, the philosophical texts covered offer a remarkable insight into a world out of which our present way of thinking emerged V. 1. Ancient And Medieval -- V. 2. The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries -- V. 3. The Nineteenth Century -- V. 4. The Twentieth Century, Moore To Popper -- V. 5. The Twentieth Century, Quine And After.. Edited By John Shand. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Vol.4 covers the key works of philosophy written in the period 1900-1960 V.01 Ancient and medieval. -- v.02 Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries