Robbins Library Notes

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Those interested in the history of early analytic philosophy might want to read:

• Juliet Floyd, “Recent Themes in the History of Early Analytic Philosophy,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 47(2): 157-200, April 2009 — a Harvard PIN and ID are required to access this article.

Here is the abstract:

Abstract

A survey of the emergence of early analytic philosophy as a subfield of the history of philosophy. The importance of recent literature on Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein is stressed, as is the widening interest in understanding the nineteenth-century scientific and Kantian backgrounds. In contrast to recent histories of early analytic philosophy by P.M.S. Hacker and Scott Soames, the importance of historical and philosophical work on the significance of formalization is highlighted, as are the contributions made by those focusing on systematic treatments of individual philosophers, traditions, and periods in relation to contemporary issues (rule-following, neo-Fregeanism, contextualism, theory of meaning).

For those who may be interested, I have compiled a list of other histories of analytic philosophy, which you can find here.

Are there other resources which I should add to this list?