The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945

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Thomas Baldwin
Cambridge University Press, Nov 27, 2003 - History - 959 pages
The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945 comprises over sixty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period, and is designed to be accessible to non-specialists. The first part of the book traces the history of philosophy from its remarkable flowering in the 1870s through to the early years of the twentieth century. After a brief discussion of the impact of the First World War, the second part of the book describes further developments in philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century.
 

Contents

Positivist thought in the nineteenth century II
11
the German idealism movement
27
Idealism in Britain and the United States 1353
43
Idealism in Russia
60
Pragmatism
74
old and new
93
SEBASTIAN GARDNER
107
revival and reform
119
The achievements of the Polish school of logic
401
Logic and philosophical analysis
417
The continuing idealist tradition
427
Transformations in speculative philosophy
438
Realism naturalism and pragmatism
449
French Catholic philosophy
461
Spanish philosophy
469
The phenomenological movement
477

IO Foundations of mathematics
128
Theories of judgement
157
The logical analysis of language
174
The atomism debate
195
Theories of spacetime in modern physics
207
The debate over the Geisteswissenschaften in German philosophy
221
From political economy to positive economics
235
Sociology and the idea of social science
245
Utilitarians and idealists
255
Nietzsche
266
The new realism in ethics
277
Individualism vs collectivism
289
Marxism and anarchism
297
Legal theory
309
Sceptical challenges to faith
321
The defence of faith
329
aesthetics at 1870
337
aesthetics at the turn of the century
348
Philosophy and the First World War
365
Logical atomism
383
logical positivism
391
Heidegger
497
Latin American philosophy
507
Japanese philosophy
513
Sensible appearances
521
The renaissance of epistemology
533
The solipsism debates
544
Language
554
The end of philosophy as metaphysics
565
Firstorder logic and its rivals
581
General relativity
600
so The rise of probabilistic thinking
621
Behaviourism and psychology
640
Wittgensteins conception of mind
658
The rise of social anthropology
679
From intuitionism to emotivism
695
Literature as philosophy
714
Hans Kelsen and normative legal positivism
739
critics
755
Bibliography
773
Index
878

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Thomas Baldwin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York.

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