precis_of_philosophical_analysis_in_the_twentieth_century,：在第二十世纪的哲学分析大纲，.pdf

Philos Stud (2006) 129:605–608 DOI 10.1007/s11098-006-0012-6 PRECI S Pre´cis of Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1, The Dawn of Analysis Scott Soames Accepted: 27 March 2006 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006 This, first of two, volumes covers major figures starting with Moore, Russell, and Wittgenstein, continuing through selected logical positivists, emotivists, and the anti- emotivist David Ross, and concluding with pre-Word-and-Object works of Quine. The volumes are outgrowths of upper-division undergraduate courses at Princeton University that were often attended by first and second-year graduate students as well. The intended audience consists of comparable students at universities in the English-speaking world, autodidacts, and professional philosophers, who may use the volumes to fill gaps in their knowledge, and to interact with the larger evaluative and interpretative perspectives on offer. Although the volumes were intended as an intensive introduction, they were also written with a more ambitious agenda. The aim was to identify the main lines of progress in the analytic tradition—which involved selecting the most important works, explaining their most significant suc- cesses, and drawing lessons from their most disappointing failures. The result is a philosophically and pedagogically motivated history the aim of which is to separate the essential from the inessential by focusing intensively on the achievements that every member of the tradition should understand. Minor figures and minor works of major figures are, for the most part, omitted. The emphasis throughout is on explaining what was philosophically important and why, as opposed to tracing lines of historical influence, or chronicling changes in individual philoso- phers’ thoughts over time. The major achievements themselves are subj