The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

Kevin C. Klement, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The Handbook is a large and wonderfully useful resource.

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.

Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and its Historiography ; 1. What is analytic philosophy? ; 2. The historiography of analytic philosophy ; 3. Chronology of analytic philosophy and its historiography ; 4. Bibliography of analytic philosophy and its historiography ; PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY ; 5. Bolzano's anti-Kantianism: from a priori cognitions to conceptual truths ; 6. Time, norms, and structure in nineteenth-century German philosophy of science ; 7. Frege and the German background to analytic philosophy ; 8. Analytic philosophy, the Analytic school, and British philosophy ; 9. The mathematical and logical background to analytic philosophy ; 10. Gottlob Frege: some forms of influence ; 11. Russell and Moore's revolt against British idealism ; 12. Russell's theory of descriptions and the idea of logical construction ; 13. G. E. Moore and the Cambridge School of Analysis ; 14. The whole meaning of a book of nonsense: reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus ; PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY ; 15. Oxford realism ; 16. Early logical empiricism and its reception: the case of the Vienna Circle ; 17. Developments in logic: Carnap, Godel and Tarski ; 18. Wittgenstein's later philosophy ; 19. Quine, Kripke, and Putnam ; 20. The myth of logical behaviourism and the origins of the identity theory ; 21. The development of theories of meaning: from Frege to McDowell and beyond ; 22. Reason, action and the will: the fall and rise of causalism ; 23. Metaphysics in analytic philosophy ; 24. Meta-ethics in the twentieth century ; 25. Normative ethical theory in the twentieth century ; 26. Analytic aesthetics ; 27. Analytic political philosophy ; PART THREE: THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY ; 28. The function is unsaturated ; 29. When logical atomism met the Theaetetus: Ryle on Naming and Saying ; 30. Reading the Tractatus with G. E. M. Anscombe ; 31. Ideas of a logically perfect language in analytic philosophy ; 32. The linguistic turn in analytic philosophy ; 33. Perception and sense data ; 34. Scepticism and knowledge: Moore's proof of an external world ; 35. The varieties of rigorous experience ; 36. Modality ; 37. Inferentialism and normativity ; 38. Pragmatism and analytic philosophy ; 39. The role of phenomenology in analytic philosophy