The Linguistic turn : essays in philosophical method / edited by Richard M. Rorty ; with two retrospective essays. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992. - 407 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-407).

Introduction / Classic statements of the thesis that philosophical questions are questions of language: -- The future of philosophy / On the character of philosophical problems / Logical positivism, language, and the reconstructiion of metaphysics (in part) / Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Systematically misleading expressions / Philosophical perplexity / Moore and ordinary language / Metaphilosophical problems of ideal-language philosophy: -- Analysis and metaphysical inquiry / Two criteria for an ideal language / Reply to Bergmann / Russell's philosophy of language (in part) / Linguistic approaches to philosophical problems / Comments on the "Proposal theory" of philosophy -- Language and ontology / Semantic ascent (from Word and object) / Richard M. Rorty -- Moritz Schlick -- Rudolf Carnap -- Gustav Bergmann -- Rudolf Carnap -- John Wisdom -- John Wisdom -- Norman Malcolm -- Irving Copi -- Gustav Bergmann -- Irving Copi -- Max Black -- Alice Ambrose -- James W. Cornman -- Willard v. O. Quine. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part II. 8a. 8b. 8c. 9. 10a. 10b. 11. 12. Metaphilosophical problems of ordinary-language philosophy: -- Philosophers and ordinary language / Arguments to meaninglessness: excluded opposites and paradigm cases (from Philosophical reasoning) / Why ordinary language needs reforming / When is ordinary language reformed? / Philosophical discoveries / Do we discover our uses of words? / Ascriptivism / Uses of language and philosophical problems / J.L. Austin / J.L. Austin / J.L. Austin / The interpretation of language: words and concepts / Recapitulations, reconsiderations, and future prospects: -- Are all philosophical questions questions of language? / The history of analysis / Discussion of Urmson's "The history of analysis" / Analysis, science, and metaphysics / Discussion of Strawson's "Analysis, science, and metaphysics" / Language and reality / The philosophical relevance of linguistic theory -- A pre-requisite for rational philosophical discussion -- Two retospective essays: -- Ten years after ; Twenty-five years after / Roderick Chisholm -- John Passmore -- Grover Maxwell and Herbert Feigl -- Manley Thompson -- Richard Hare -- Paul Henle -- Peter Geach -- James W. Cornman -- J.O. Urmson -- Stuart Hampshire -- J.O. Urmson and G. Warnock -- Stuart Hampshire -- Dudley Shapere -- Stuart Hampshire -- J.O. Urmson -- by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium -- P.F. Strawson -- by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium -- Max Black -- by Richard M. Rorty. Part III. 13. 14. 15a. 15b. 16a. 16b. 17. 18. 19. 20a. 20b. 21. Part IV. 22. Philosophy and the analysis of language / 23. 24a. 24b. 25a. 25b. 26. 27. 28.

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Semantics (Philosophy)
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Analysis (Philosophy)
Methodology.
Analysis (Philosophy)
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Methodology.
Semantics (Philosophy)

B 840 / .L528 1992