The Birth of Analytic Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.22240/sent24.01.040Abstract
The article reviews logical and mathematical problems, which were the starting point of what is now known as “analytical philosophy”. The author proves that the moment of birth of analytical philosophy was Frege’s invention of a notation for quantifiers and va-riables in 1879. Another source of analytical philosophy was rather declaration than proof of certain philosophical beliefs by Moore and Russell during the 1990s. Generally, an analysis of these sources serves to clarify what analytical philosophy is and what it is not, as well as why it appeared exactly at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Dedekind R. Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1888.
Dummett M. Truth and Other Enigmas. London: Duckworth, 1978.
Dummett M. Origins of Analytical Philosophy. London: Duckworth, 1993.
Frege G. Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens. Halle: Nebert, 1879.
Frege G. Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik. Breslau: Koebner, 1884.
Frege G. Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, begriffsschriftlich abgeleitet. Jena: Pohle, 1893-1903.
Frege G. Die Gedanke In Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus. I. 1918. P. 58-77.
Makin G. Making sense of «On denoting» In Synthese. # 102. 1995. P. 383-412. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064122
McCarthy T., Stidd S.C. Wittgenstein in America. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.
Moore G.E. The nature of judgment In Mind. # 38. 1899. 176-193. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/VIII.2.176
Oliver A. A few more remarks on logical form In Proc. Aristot. Soc. # 99. 1999. P. 247-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9264.00059
Peirce C.S. On the algebra of logic: A contribution to the philosophy of notation In American Journal of Mathematics. # 7 1885. P. 180-202. https://doi.org/10.2307/2369451
Potter M. Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
Putnam H. Reason, Truth and History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625398
Quine W.V. Word and Object. Cambridge: MA, MIT Press, 1960.
Ramsey F.P. The foundations of mathematics. In Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. # 25. 1926. P. 338-384. https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s2-25.1.338
Russell B. The Principles of Mathematics. London: Allen & Unwin, 1903.
Russell B. The Problems of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1912.
Russell B. The philosophy of logical atomism. In Monist. # 28. 1918. P. 495-527. https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19182843
Russell B. Logical Atomism In Contemporary British Philosophy / ed. J.H. Muirhead. London: Allen & Unwin. 1924. P. 357-383.
Russell B. The relation of psychology to logic In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volume. # 17. 1938 P. 42-53.
Russell B. My Philosophical Development. London: Allen & Unwin, 1959.
Skorupski J. Why did language matter to analytic philosophy? In The Rise of Analytic Philosophy / Ed. by H.-J. Glock. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Whitehead A.N., Russell B. Principia Mathematica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910-1913.
Wittgenstein L. Notes on Logic In Notebooks 1914-1916 / Eds. G .H. Von Wright, G. E. M. Anscombe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913. P. 93-107.
Wittgenstein L. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. London: Kegan Paul & Trubner, 1922.
Wittgenstein L. Some remarks on logical form In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volume 9. 1929. P. 162-171.
Wittgenstein L. Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1953.
Wittgenstein L. Notebooks, 1914-1916. Oxford: Blackwell, 1979.
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Potter, M. (2011). The Birth of Analytic Philosophy. Sententiae, 24(1), 40–77. https://doi.org/10.22240/sent24.01.040
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