During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic philosophy, as analytic philosophers examine the foundations of their tradition and question many of the assumptions of their predecessors. This has led to greater historical self-consciousness among analytic philosophers and more scholarly work on the historical contexts in which analytic philosophy developed. This historical turn in analytic philosophy has been gathering pace since the 1990s, and the present volume is the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on the history of analytic philosophy. It contains state-of-the-art contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, all of the contributions specially commissioned. The introductory essays discuss the nature and historiography of analytic philosophy, accompanied by a detailed chronology and bibliography. Part One elucidates the origins of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the work of Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Part Two explains the development of analytic philosophy, from Oxford realism and logical positivism to the most recent work in analytic philosophy, and includes essays on ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy as well as on the areas usually seen as central to analytic philosophy, such as philosophy of language and mind. Part Three explores certain key themes in the history of analytic philosophy.

Edited by Michael Beaney, University of York

Michael Beaney is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He works on the history of analytic philosophy and on conceptions of analysis in the history of philosophy. He is the author of Frege: Making Sense (Duckworth, 1996), and editor of The Frege Reader (Blackwell, 1997), Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (with Erich Reck; 4 vols., Routledge, 2005), and The Analytic Turn (Routledge, 2007). He is Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Contributors:

Maria Baghramian, University College Dublin

Thomas Baldwin, University of York

Michael Beaney, University of York

Tyler Burge, University of California, Los Angeles

Stewart Candlish, University of Western Australia

Annalisa Coliva, University of Modena

Sean Crawford, University of Manchester

Nic Damnjanovic, University of Western Australia

Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading/University of Texas at Austin

Cora Diamond, University of Virginia

Julia Driver, Washington University in St. Louis

Juliet Floyd, Boston University

Gottfried Gabriel, University of Jena

Richard Gaskin, University of Liverpool

Hanjo Glock, University of Zurich

Nicholas Griffin, McMaster University

Peter Hacker, Oxford University

Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania

Richard Heck, Brown University

David Hyder, University of Ottawa

Peter Hylton, University of Illinois at Chicago

Andrew Jorgensen, University College Dublin

Mark Kalderon, University College London

Michael Kremer, University of Chicago

Peter Lamarque, University of York

Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta

Robert May, University of California, Davis

Alex Miller, University of Otago

Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto

Jaroslav Peregrin, Charles University, Prague

Erich Reck, University of California, Riverside

Sanford Shieh, Wesleyan University

Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin

John Skorupski, University of St Andrews

David Woodruff Smith, University of California, Irvine

Jamie Tappenden, University of Michigan

Mark Textor, King's College London

Charles Travis, King's College London

Thomas Uebel, University of Manchester

J. Wolff, University College London