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innovations in t he histor y of anal ytical philosophy edited by sandra lapointe christopher pincock Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy Series Editors Vincent Hendricks University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Duncan Pritchard University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy is a new series of monographs. Each book in the series will constitute the ‘new wave’ of philosophy, both in terms of its topic and the research profile of the author. The books will be concerned with exciting new research topics of particular contempo- rary interest, and will include topics at the intersection of Philosophy and other research areas. They will be written by up-and-coming young philosophers who have already established a strong research profile and who are clearly going to be leading researchers of the future. Each monograph in this series will provide an overview of the research area in question while at the same time significantly advancing the debate on this topic and giving the reader a sense of where this debate might be heading next. The books in the series would be of interest to researchers and advanced students within philosophy and its neighboring scientific environments. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14689 Sandra Lapointe · Christopher Pincock Editors Innovations in the History of Analytical Philosophy Editors Sandra Lapointe Christopher Pincock McMaster University Ohio State University Hamilton, ON, Canada Columbus, OH, USA Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy ISBN 978-1-137-40807-5 ISBN 978-1-137-40808-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-40808-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017944557 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: PhotoAlto/Milena Boniek Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom Series Editors’ Preface Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy is a series of short monographs. Each book will constitute the ‘new wave’ of pure or applied philosophy, both in terms of its topic and the research angle, and will be concerned with ‘hot’ new research areas in philosophy and its neighbouring intellectual disciplines. These monographs will provide an overview of an emerging area while at the same time significantly advancing the debate on this topic and giving the reader a sense of where this debate might be head- ing next. While the series will devote attention to core topics of philoso- phy, it will also feature books with an interdisciplinary outlook, as we believe that many of the most exciting developments in our discipline involve a fusion of philosophy with other subjects. Copenhagen, Denmark Vincent Hendricks Edinburgh, UK Duncan Pritchard v Preface While ‘History of Analytical Philosophy’ as a label for a distinctive philosophical specialty is recent enough to still count among its active researchers those who first established the field, it has thrived in the last 10 years. Over the course of that time, two academic associations, the History of Early Analytical Philosophy Society (HEAPS) and the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP), were created. If only the latter seems to have organized meetings and recruited members in recent years, they were nonetheless both instru- mental in providing the research community with its first dedicated venues for expert scholarship. Something similar holds for the peer- reviewed Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (www.jhapon- line.org), founded in 2011, and publishing under a Creative Commons license—online and at no cost—on a variety of topics that have enriched the common conception of the kinds of questions that per- tain to the field. More importantly, historians of analytical philosophy today are raising questions concerning the value of the canon associ- ated with the putative ‘analytic tradition.’ They are extending the reach of their investigations beyond its customary associations with the birth of modern logic, the foundations of mathematics and the philosophy vii viii Preface of language. Part of the reason for this is that analytical p hilosophy itself has evolved tremendously and so has analytical p hilosophers’ self-conception. Historians in the field, to the extent that they are attuned to contemporary research, seek to reflect these new, broader concerns. In turn, their work comes to inform the research and teaching of their peers, providing a valuable historical perspective. What motivated us to undertake this volume was originally the thought that the distinctiveness and significance of works by at least some of the many junior scholars would suit what used to be known as Palgrave’s ‘New Waves’ series rather fittingly. This volume for Palgrave’s ‘Innovations’ series is the outcome of this project. All contri- butions to this volume are original: they were commissioned expressly to reflect the diversity and recent development in the field: revisiting standard narratives and canonical figures, doing justice to philosophers who have been unfairly neglected, writing new chapters on the recent developments, and establishing meaningful connections with other philosophical ‘traditions’ such as pragmatism and phenomenology in a way that reflects the sort of ecumenism that is characteristic of genuine philosophical acumen. Hamilton, Canada Sandra Lapointe Columbus, USA Christopher Pincock Acknowledgements Preliminary versions of the papers published here were presented and discussed in-depth at a workshop that was organized at McMaster University in January 2015. We would like to thank the Bertrand Russell Research Centre, the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Humanities for their support. Our thanks also go to Sean Dudley for his help with various editorial tasks. ix Contents Introduction 1 Sandra Lapointe and Christopher Pincock Part I Aspects of Analytic Philosophy The Rise of ‘Analytic Philosophy’: When and How Did People Begin Calling Themselves ‘Analytic Philosophers’? 27 Greg Frost-Arnold The Dissonant Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Common Sense in Philosophical Methodology 69 Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Leon Geerdink xi
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