| Course: | LPS/Phil 115/215 |
| Name: | History of Analytic Philosophy |
| Description: | The philosophical tradition called
"analytic philosophy" arose from diverse sources in turn of the century
Cambridge and Germany to become the dominant tradition in 20th and 21st
century Anglo-American philosophy. We will discuss some of the
most important works of analytic philosophy from the 1870s to the
1950s, focusing, though not exclusively, on issues in the philosophy of
language, logic, mathematics, and perception. Authors include
Helmholtz, Frege, Moore, Russell, Early Wittgenstein, Carnap, Late
Wittgenstein, Quine, and Sellars. Prerequisites: PHIL/LPS 30 or 104 and at least one other philosophy course. A willingness to read a goodly number of elegant but difficult texts. Texts: Frege, Foundations of Arithmetic; Russell, Problems of Philosophy; Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. Also selected papers made available by the instructor. |