History of analytic philosophy
Prof Michael Potter and Dr Sacha Golob
Lent Term 2012: Tuesdays at 2pm, Graduate Common Room
Intended audience
The topics to be discussed overlap to a considerable extent with the syllabus for Metaphysics and Philosophical Logic, and Part II students are very welcome to attend. However, the main intended audience is graduate students who want to extend their knowledge of the early history of analytic philosophy.
Arrangements
We shall read and discuss key papers by Frege, Russell and Moore (often regarded as founders of analytic philosophy), as well as by some of those who influenced them.
Syllabus
The links in the list below are to PDFs of the relevant reading and will work only from cam.ac.uk web addresses.
- Psychologism and logic
- Frege, '17 key sentences on logic'
- Frege, Grundgesetze, Vol. 1, pp. xv-xviii
- Husserl, Logical investigations, 17-38
- Reference, existence and denotation
- Russell, Principles §§72-3, 427
- Russell, 'The existential import of propositions', Mind (1905) 398-401
- Russell, Review of Meinong, Mind (1905) 530-5
- Judgement and the proposition
- Moore, 'The nature of judgment', Mind (1899) 176-93
- Russell, Principles §§46-55, 425-7, 481-3
- Russell, Theory of Knowledge (1913), ch. 9
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- Internal and external relations
- Moore, 'External and internal relations', PAS (1919029) 40-62
- Russell, 'Some explanations in reply to Mr Bradley'
- Sense data and secondary qualities
- Stout, 'Primary and secondary qualities', PAS (1904) 141-60
- Nunn, 'Are secondary qualities independent of perception?', PAS (1909-10) 191-218
- Universals, particulars and tropes
- Moore, 'Identity', PAS (1901) 103-27
- Stout, 'The nature of universals and propositions', British Academy lecture 1921
- Causation
- Russell, 'On the notion of cause', PAS, 13 (1912-13) 1-26
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