Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-407).

Introduction / Richard M. Rorty -- Part I. Classic statements of the thesis that philosophical questions are questions of language: -- 1. The future of philosophy / Moritz Schlick -- 2. On the character of philosophical problems / Rudolf Carnap -- 3. Logical positivism, language, and the reconstructiion of metaphysics (in part) / Gustav Bergmann -- 4. Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Rudolf Carnap -- 5. Systematically misleading expressions / John Wisdom -- 6. Philosophical perplexity / John Wisdom -- Moore and ordinary language / Norman Malcolm -- Part II. Metaphilosophical problems of ideal-language philosophy: -- 8a. Analysis and metaphysical inquiry / Irving Copi -- 8b. Two criteria for an ideal language / Gustav Bergmann -- 8c. Reply to Bergmann / Irving Copi -- 9. Russell's philosophy of language (in part) / Max Black -- 10a. Linguistic approaches to philosophical problems / Alice Ambrose -- 10b. Comments on the "Proposal theory" of philosophy -- 11. Language and ontology / James W. Cornman -- 12. Semantic ascent (from Word and object) / Willard v. O. Quine.

Part III. Metaphilosophical problems of ordinary-language philosophy: -- 13. Philosophers and ordinary language / Roderick Chisholm -- 14. Arguments to meaninglessness: excluded opposites and paradigm cases (from Philosophical reasoning) / John Passmore -- 15a. Why ordinary language needs reforming / Grover Maxwell and Herbert Feigl -- 15b. When is ordinary language reformed? / Manley Thompson -- 16a. Philosophical discoveries / Richard Hare -- 16b. Do we discover our uses of words? / Paul Henle -- 17. Ascriptivism / Peter Geach -- 18. Uses of language and philosophical problems / James W. Cornman -- 19. J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson -- 20a. J.L. Austin / Stuart Hampshire -- 20b. J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson and G. Warnock -- 21. The interpretation of language: words and concepts / Stuart Hampshire -- Part IV. Recapitulations, reconsiderations, and future prospects: -- 22. Philosophy and the analysis of language / Dudley Shapere -- 23. Are all philosophical questions questions of language? / Stuart Hampshire -- 24a. The history of analysis / J.O. Urmson -- 24b. Discussion of Urmson's "The history of analysis" / by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium -- 25a. Analysis, science, and metaphysics / P.F. Strawson -- 25b. Discussion of Strawson's "Analysis, science, and metaphysics" / by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium -- 26. Language and reality / Max Black -- 27. The philosophical relevance of linguistic theory -- 28. A pre-requisite for rational philosophical discussion -- Two retospective essays: -- Ten years after ; Twenty-five years after / by Richard M. Rorty.