The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1945

Cambridge University Press, 6/7/2012
EAN 9781107628830, ISBN10: 1107628830

Paperback, 974 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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 who have little previous familiarity with philosophy. As with the other volumes in the series, much of the emphasis of the essays is thematic, concentrating on developments during the period across a range of philosophical topics, from logic and metaphysics to political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Several chapters also discuss the changing relationship of philosophy to the natural and social sciences during this period. The result is an authoritative survey of this rich and varied period of philosophical activity, which will be of critical importance not only to teachers and students of philosophy but also to scholars in neighbouring disciplines such as the history of science, the history of ideas, theology and the social sciences.

Introduction
Part I. 1870–1914
Section 1. The Dialectical Situation in 1870
Positivism vs. Idealism
1. The positivist tradition
2. Neo-Kantianism
the German idealism movement
3. Idealism in Britain and the USA
4. Idealism in Russia
Section 2. The Argument Moves on
Pragmatism and the New Realisms
5. Bergson
6. Pragmatism
7. Psychology
old and new
8. The unconscious mind
Section 3. The New Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
9. The new logic
revival, reform, revolution
10. Foundations of mathematics
Section 4. From Judgement to Language
11. Theories of judgement
12. The logical analysis of language
Section 5. Physics and the Philosophy of Science
13. The atomism debate
14. Theories of space-time in modern physics
Section 6. Philosophy of History and the Idea of Social Sciences
15. The German debate and the Geisteswissenschaften
16. From political economy to positive economics
17. Sociology and the idea of social science
Section 7. Ethical Theory
18. Utilitarians and idealists
19. Nietzsche
20. The new realism in ethics
Section 8. Legal and Political Theory
21. Individualism vs. collectivism
22. Marxism and anarchism
23. Legal theory
Section 9. Philosophy and Religion
24. Sceptical challenges to faith
25. The defence of faith
Section 10. Philosophy and the Arts
26. Art and morality
aesthetics at 1870
27. Format and feeling
aesthetics at the turn of the century
Interlude
philosophy and the Great War
Part II. 1914–45
Section 11. Logic and Philosophy
The Analytic Programme
28. Logical atomism
29. Logical positivism
30. The achievements of the Polish school of logic
31. Logic and philosophical analysis
Section 12. From Idealism and Naturalism to Phenomenology and Existentialism
32. The continuing idealist tradition
33. Transformations in speculative philosophy
34. Realism, naturalism and pragmatism
35. French Catholic philosophy
36. Spanish philosophy
37. The phenomenological movement
38. Heidegger
39. Latin American philosophy
40. Japanese philosophy
Section 13. Perception, Knowledge, Language, and the End of Metaphysics
41. Sensible appearances
42. The renaissance of epistemology
43. The solipsism debates
44. Language
45. The end of philosophy as metaphysics
Section 14. Philosophy and the Exact Sciences
46. First-order logic and its rivals
47. The golden age of mathematical logic
48. General relativity
49. Scientific explanation
50. The rise of probabilistic thinking
Section 15. Mind and its Place in Nature
51. Vitalism and emergentism
52. Behaviourism and psychology
53. Gestalt psychology
54. Wittgenstein's conception of mind
Section 16. Philosophy and The Social Sciences
55. The methodology of the social sciences
56. The rise of social anthropology
57. Western Marxism and ideology critique
Section 17. Ethics and Religion
Emotivism, Intuitionism, and Authenticity
58. From intuitionism to emotivism
59. Philosophy of religion
Section 18. Literature and Aesthetic Theory
60. Literature as philosophy
61. Aesthetics between the wars
art and liberation
Section 19. The Decline of Europe
62. The liberal democratic state
defences and developments, 1918–45
63. Hans Kelsen and normative legal positivism
64. The liberal democratic state – critics
Bibliographical appendix
Bibliography.

Review of the hardback: 'The overall standard of the contributions is high, and there is much to be gained from the brief but incisive essays … a valuable reference work.' Political Studies Review

Review of the hardback: '… The Cambridge History of Philosophy is a magnificent achievement: a superb resource that can be recommended to all philosophers and anyone with an interest in the history of the period.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy