The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy

Abstract

According to its dust jacket, the current volume1 is the second in a projected five-volume series. The completed series is intended to supplant Soames’s two-volume work, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (Soames 2003a, 2003b), providing more comprehensive, detailed and sophisticated coverage of the topics and figures there discussed (2014: xi). Volume 1: The Founding Giants (Soames 2014) covers Frege, early Moore and early Russell. Volume 2 is somewhat less unified. Part 1, devoted to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (Wittgenstein, 1922), is thematically continuous with the first volume. Parts 2 and 3 mark a cleaner break, focusing, respectively, on the emergence of Logical Empiricism in the 1920s and 30s (with a chapter on the concurrent developments in logic) and on ethics in the face of the empiricist criterion of meaning (the Moorean background covered in Volume 1 looms large here)....

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