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This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary
Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the
philosophical achievements of various female figures during the
period 1870-1970. Contemporary Philosophy is generally presented by
its historians as a field founded entirely by men, with no
prominent female contributors. Historical investigation of the
development of contemporary analytic philosophy, for example,
usually centres around Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, with
occasional ventures into Moore or the Vienna Circle. Such accounts
leave out vast swathes of the historical record (from early 19th
century to 20th century), in particular the women, including
Christine Ladd-Franklin, Sophie Bryant, E.E.C. Jones, Susan
Stebbing, Dorothy Wrinch, Alice Ambrose, Margaret MacDonald, Martha
Kneale, Ruth Barcan Marcus and Ayda Ignez Arruda publishing on
themes central to analytic philosophy– logic, language, realism,
and relations. It is noteworthy that this pattern in historiography
is not unique to one strand of philosophy or one part of the world
but re-appears again and again. In the continental tradition, the
development of Schopenhauer's philosophy leaves out significant
contributions of women such as Olga Plümacher. The chapters in
this book examine central themes from the perspective of female
philosophers to provide a fuller picture of Philosophy of this
period. This volume will be a great resource for academics,
researchers, and advanced students of Philosophy and Women’s
Studies and for everyone interested in the contribution of women
philosophers. It was originally published in the British Journal
for the History of Philosophy.
David Lewis (1941-2001) was a celebrated and influential figure in
analytic philosophy. When Lewis died, he left behind a large body
of unpublished notes, manuscripts, and letters. This volume
contains two longer manuscripts which Lewis had originally intended
to turn into books, and thirty-one shorter items. The longer
manuscripts are 'The Paradoxes of Time Travel', his David Gavin
Young Lectures at the University of Adelaide, and 'Confirmation
Theory', which is based on a graduate course on probability and
logic that he gave at UCLA. Lewis's described his purposes in 'The
Paradoxes of Time Travel' as being, `(1) to solve a philosophical
problem hitherto largely ignored or casually mis-solved by
philosophers […]; (2) to introduce the layman to various topics
in metaphysics, since our problem turns out to connect with many
more familiar ones; and (3) to show of several of my favorite
doctrines and methods in metaphysics'. By contrast, 'Confirmation
Theory' is a technical work in which Lewis aimed to present in a
unified fashion what he considered to be the best from competing
theories of confirmation. Lewis described the work as
'Mathematically self-contained, with proofs for the major theorems;
but the mathematics is kept down to hairy high-school algebra'. The
thirty-one shorter items cover such topics as causation, freedom of
the will, probability, counterparts, reference, logic, value, and
divine evil. They are included here both for their intrinsic
philosophical interest and their historical value. This volume also
contains an intellectual biography of the young David Lewis by the
editors.
Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as
well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several
leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem,
this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical
investigation of Quine and his philosophical context.
W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of
mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of
the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology,
and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his
influence, yet recent work in these areas has become increasingly
dismissive of his views. This is often because of mistaken or
overly simplified conceptions of his philosophy which overlook the
development of his views over time, in particular the growing
importance of a kind of structuralism to his system as it evolved.
This volume provides a fuller, richer picture of Quine's views and
their development. With contributions from leading philosophers in
a range of subfields including philosophical logic, philosophy of
language, history of philosophy, mathematics, philosophy of time,
and set theory, it is the first to investigate Quine's views on
structure and how it permeates and shapes his attitude to a range
of philosophical questions.
Susan Stebbing (1885-1943), the UK's first female professor of
philosophy, was a key figure in the development of analytic
philosophy. Stebbing wrote the world's first accessible book on the
new polyadic logic and its philosophy. She made major contributions
to the philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophical logic,
critical thinking and applied philosophy. Nonetheless she has
remained largely neglected by historians of analytic philosophy.
This Element provides a thorough yet accessible overview of
Stebbing's positive, original contributions, including her solution
to the paradox of analysis, her account of the relation of sense
data to physical objects, and her anti- idealist interpretation of
the new Einsteinian physics. Stebbing's innovative work in these
and other areas helped move analytic philosophy from its early
phase to its middle period.
W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of
twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote
predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of
lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently
published as the book O Sentido da Nova Logica. The book has never
before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the
first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers.
Quine would go on to develop revolutionary ideas about semantic
holism and ontology, and this book provides a snapshot of his views
on logic and language at a pivotal stage of his intellectual
development. The volume also includes an essay on logic which Quine
also published in Portuguese, together with an extensive
historical-philosophical essay by Frederique Janssen-Lauret. The
valuable and previously neglected works first translated in this
volume will be essential for scholars of twentieth-century
philosophy.
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