HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Audience

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Representation

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Music

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Popular Culture

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

HUMAN BEING / HUMAN NATURE (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE: THE NATURAL SCIENCES:

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY


SUB-PAGES

Topics:

  • For Analytic Philosophy of Art, see Art

  • For Analytic Philosophy of Film, see Film

  • For Analytic Philosophy of Literature, see Literature

Feminist:

Post-colonial:


ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2008:

  • Ontology, Mind and Language, 8th National Conference, SIFA, Bergamo, September 25-27, 2008
  • 200 Years of Analytical Philosophy, 4th International Symposium for Cognition, Logic and Communication, Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics, University of Latvia, and Department of Philosophy, Kansas State University, August 28-20
  • ECAP 6, Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, European Society for Analytical Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, August 21-26

  • Joint Session, Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, University of Aberdeen, July 11-13

2007:

  • Inaugural Conference, Sociedad Chilena de Filosofia Analitica, Santiago, Chile, October 10-11

  • Fourth Latin Meeting in Analytic Philosophy, University of Genoa, September 20-22
  • Fifth Annual Conference, Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA), University of Barcelona, September 7-9

  • Arche Vagueness Conference, University of St. Andrews, June 8-9

  • Joint Session, Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, University of Bristol, July 6-9

2006:

2005:

2004:

  • IV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica, Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica (SEFA), Departamento de Filosofia, Universidad de Murcia, December 16-18

  • Second National Meeting (ENFA-2), Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy, Faculdade de Letras, University of Porto, October 7-9

  • Analytic Philosophy and European Culture, National Congress, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, September 23-25

  • Joint Session, , Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, University of Kent, Canterbury, July 9-12

  • Rationality of Belief and Action, Annual Conference, Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, May 27-28

  • Hilary Putnam's Pragmatism, Second Meeting on Pragmatism, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, May 13-14

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS

Precursors:

Cambridge Logical Atomism:

Logical Positivism/Empiricism:

Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy (Conceptual Analysis/Linguistic Analysis/Speech-Act Theory):

Recent:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • General:

      • Ammerman, Robert R., ed.  Classics of Analytical Philosophy.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1990.

      • Baillie, James, ed. Contemporary Analytic Philosophy: Core Readings.  Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2002.

      • Black, M.  Philosophical Analysis: a Collection of Essays.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1950.

      • Fiegl, Herbert, and Wilfrid Sellars, eds.  Readings in Philosophical Analysis.  New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949.

      • Flew, Anthony, ed.  Essays in Conceptual Analysis.  London: Macmillan, 1960. 

      • Hales, Stephen D., ed.  Analytic Philosophy: Classic Readings.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001.

      • Hanfling, Oswald, ed.  Philosophy and Ordinary Language.  London: Routledge, 2000.

      • Klemke, E. D., ed.  Contemporary Analytic and Linguistic Philosophies.  Ithaca: Promethean, 1999.

      • Lewis, H. D., ed.  Contemporary British Philosophy.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1956.

      • Lindberg, Jordan J., ed.  Analytic Philosophy: Beginnings to the Present.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

      • Macdonald, M., ed.  Philosophy and Analysis.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1954.

      • Mace, C. A., ed.  British Philosophy in the Mid-Century.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1957.

      • Martinich, A. P., and David Sosa, eds.  Analytic Philosophy: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

      • Muirhead, J. H., ed.  Contemporary British Philosophy.  London: George Allen and Unwin.

        • Third Series.  1956.

        • First and Second Series.  1924.

      • Weitz, Morris, ed.  Twentieth Century Philosophy: the Analytic Tradition.  New York: Free Press, 1966.

    • Cambridge Logical Atomism:

    • Logical Positivism / Empiricism:

      • Ayer, Alfred J., ed.  Logical Positivism.  Glencoe, NY: Free Press, 1959.

      • Fischer, K. R., ed.  The Golden Age of Austrian Philosophy: a Sourcebook.  Vienna: WUV Verlag, 1995.

      • Sarkar, S., ed.  Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism.  New York: Garland, 1996.

    • Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy:

      • Searle, John, ed.  The Philosophy of Language.  Oxford: OUP, 1971.

      • Rorty, Richard, ed.  The Linguistic Turn.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967.

      • Strawson, P. F., ed.  Philosophical Logic.  Oxford: OUP, 1967. 

      • Caton, Charles E. ed.  Philosophy and Ordinary Language.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1963.

      • Flew, Anthony, ed.  Essays in Conceptual Analysis.  London: Macmillan, 1960.

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

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      • Being:

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

        • Gender:

        • Race:

        • Sexuality:

      • Knowledge:

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      • Morality:

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      • Nature:

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      • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Religion:

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      • Society:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

    • Cambridge Logical Atomism:

    • Logical Positivism / Empiricism:

      • Hahn, Hans, Rudolph Carnap, and Otto Neurath.  "The Scientific Conception of the World: the Vienna Circle."  Rpt. in Neurath, Otto.  Empiricism and Sociology.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1973.  299-318.  Also Rpt. in Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. Jordan J. Lindberg.  Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2000. 147-158.  [1929]

    • Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy:

      • Alston, William P.  Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2000.

      • Cavell, Stanley.  "Austin and Examples."  The Claim of Reason.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.  49-64.

      • Katz, Jerrold.  Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force.  New York: Crowell, 1977.

      • Tsohatzidis, Savas L.  Foundations of Speech Act Theory.  London: Routledge, 1994.

    • Recent:

      • Shapiro, Stewart.  Vagueness in Context.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

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      • Being:

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

        • Gender:

        • Race:

        • Sexuality:

      • Knowledge:

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      • Morality:

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      • Nature:

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      • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Religion:

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      • Society:

On-Line:

  • Cambridge Logical Atomism:

  • Logical Positivism / Empiricism:

  • Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy:

  • Topics:

    • Arts:

      •  

    • Being:

      •  

    • Communication:

    • Human Nature:

      • Gender:

      • Race:

      • Sexuality:

    • Knowledge:

      •  

    • Morality:

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    • Nature:

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    • Philosophy / Theory:

    • Religion:

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    • Society:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:
  • Anthologies:

    • General:

      • Ayer, Alfred J., et al., eds.  The Revolution in Philosophy.  London: Macmillan, 1967.

      • Baldwin, Thomas, ed.  Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870–1945.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.
      • Bell, David, and Neil Cooper, eds.  The Analytic Tradition: Meaning, Thought and Knowledge.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
      • Biletzki, Anat, and Anat Matar, eds.  The Story of Analytic Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.
      • Canfield, John V., ed.  Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge, and Value in the Twentieth Century.  Vol. 10 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.
      • Floyd, Juliet, and Sanford Shieh, eds.  Future Pasts: the Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.
      • Glock, Hans-Johann, ed.  The Rise of Analytic Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
      • Martinich, A. P., and David Sosa, eds.  A Companion to Analytic Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
      • Monk, Ray, and Anthony Palmer, eds.  Russell and the Origins of Analytical Philosophy.  Bristol: Thoemmes, 1996.
      • The Rise of Analytic Philosophy.  Special Issue of Ratio 9 (1996).
      • Shanker, Stuart G., ed.  Philosophy of Science, Logic, and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century.  Vol. 9 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1996.
      • Sorell, Tom, and G. A. J. Rogers, eds.  Analytic Philosophy and History Of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
      • Tait, W., and L. Linsky, eds.  Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein.  La Salle: Open Court, 1997.
      • Textor, Mark, ed.  The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2006.
      • Williams, Bernard, and Alan Montefiore, eds.  British Analytical Philosophy.  London: Routledge, Kegan and Paul, 1966.
    • Cambridge Logical Atomism:

    • Logical Positivism / Empiricism:

      • Achinstein, P., and S. Barker, eds.  The Legacy of Logical Positivism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1969.

      • Fleming, D., and B. Bailyn, eds.  The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969.

      • Giere, R. N., and A. W. Richardson, eds.  Origins of Logical Empiricism.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996.

      • Haller, R., ed.  Neo-Positivism: a Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of the Vienna Circle.  Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1993.

      • McGuinness, B., and F. Waismann, eds.  Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1979. 
      • Richardson, Alan, and Thomas Uebel, eds.  Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.
      • Stadler, Friedrich, ed.  Scientific Philosophy: Origins an Developments.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1993.

      • Uebel, Thomas E., ed.  Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.

    • Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy:

      • Vanderveken, Daniel, and Susumu Kubo, eds.  Essays in Speech Act Theory.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002.

    • Recent:

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

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      • Being:

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

        • Gender:

        • Race:

        • Sexuality:

      • Knowledge:

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      • Morality:

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      • Nature:

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      • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Religion:

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      • Society:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

      • Baldwin, Thomas.  Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945.  Vol. 8 of Oxford History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.

      • Capaldi, Nicholas.  The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.
      • Charlton, William.  The Analytic Ambition: an Introduction to Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
      • Clark, D. S.  Philosophy's Second Revolution: Early and Recent Analytic Philosophy.  La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1997.
      • Coffa, J. Alberto.  The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.
      • Cohen, L. J.  The Dialogue of Reason: an Analysis of Analytic Philosophy.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
      • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America.  Vol. 8 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1966.
      • Corrado, Michael.  The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy: Backgrounds and Issues.  Chicago: American Library Association, 1975.
      • Dummett, Michael.  Origins of Analytical Philosophy.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1996.
      • Dummett, Michael.  "Can Analytical Philosophy be Systematic, and Ought it to Be?"  Truth and Other Enigmas.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978.  437-58.
      • Follesdal, Dagfinn.  "Analytic Philosophy: What is it and Why Should One Engage in It?"  Ratio 9.3 (1996): 193-208.   Rpt. in The Rise of Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. Hans-Johann Glock.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.  1-16.
      • Glock, Hans-Johann.  "Vordprung durch Logik: the German Analytic Tradition."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  137-166.
      • Hochberg, Herbert.  Introducing Analytic Philosophy: its Sense and Its Nonsense 1879-2002.  Hänsel-Hohenhausen, 2003.
      • Hospers, J.  An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1953.
      • Hylton, P.  Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.
      • La Caze, Marguerite.  The Analytic Imaginary.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.
      • Munitz, Milton K.  Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.  New York: Macmillan, 1981.
      • Pap, Arthur.  Semantics and Necessary Truth: an Inquiry into the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1958.
      • Pap, Arthur.  Elements of Analytic Philosophy.  New York: Macmillan, 1949.
      • Passmore, John.  A Hundred Years of Philosophy.  London: Duckworth, 1957.
      • Reck, Erich H., ed.  From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.
      • Reed, Delbert.  The Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Kant and Frege.  London: Continuum, 2007.

      • Peijnenburg, Jeanne.  "Identity and Difference 100 Years of Analytic Philosophy." Metaphilosophy 31.4 (2000): 365-381

      • Preston, Aaron.  "Prolegomena to any Future History of Analytic Philosophy."  Metaphilosophy 35.4 (2004): 445-465.
      • Redding, Paul.  Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.
      • Rosen, Stanley.  The Limits of Analysis.  New York: Basic, 1980.
      • Skorupski, John.  English-Language Philosophy, 1750-1945Vol. 6 of Oxford History of PhilosophyOxford: OUP, 1993.
      • Soames, Scott.  Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century.  2 Vols.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003.
        • the Dawn of Analysis.  Vol. 1.
        • The Age of Meaning.  Vol. 2.
      • Stroll, Avrum.  Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy.  New York: Columbia UP, 2001.
      • Stroll, Avrum.  "Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy."  The Pimlico History of Western Philosophy.  Ed. Richard H. Popkin.  New York: Columbia UP, 1999.  604-666.
      • Urmson, James O.  Philosophical Analysis.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1956.Wang, Hao.  Beyond Analytic Philosophy.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.
      • von Wright, G. H.  "Analytic Philosophy: a Historico-Critical Survey."  The Tree of Knowledge and Other Essays.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.
      • Warnock, G. J.  English Philosophy Since 1900.  Oxford: OUP, 1958.
      • Wilshire, Bruce.  Fashionable Nihilism: a Critique of Analytic Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
    • Cambridge Logical Atomism:

      • Bell, David.  "The Revolution of Moore and Russell: a Very British Coup?"  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  193-208.
    • Logical Positivism / Empiricism:

      • Bergmann, Gustav.  The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism.  London: Longman, 1954.

      • Blumberg, Albert, and Herbert Feigl.  "Logical Positivism: a New Movement in European Philosophy."  Journal of Philosophy 28.11 (1931): 281-296.

      • Frank, P.  Modern Science and its Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1949.

      • Friedman, M.  Reconsidering Logical Positivism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

      • Friedman, M.  "The Re-Evaluation of Logical Positivism."  Journal of Philosophy 10 (1991): .

      • Giere, M.  The Vienna Circle with Self-Descriptions and Photographs.  Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1992.

      • Hempel, Carl Gustav.  "The Vienna Circle and the Metamorphoses of its Empiricism."  Selected Philosophical Essays.  Ed. Richard Jeffrey.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  268-287.

      • Hempel, Carl Gustav.  "Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy."  Selected Philosophical Essays.  Ed. Richard Jeffrey.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  295-304.  [1993]

      • Joad, C. E. M.  A Critique of Logical Positivism.  London: Gallancz, 1950.

      • Jorgensen, J.  The Development of Logical Empiricism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1951.

      • Kraft, Victor.  The Vienna Circle: the Origin of Neo-Positivism: a Chapter in the History of Recent Philosophy.  Trans. Arthur Pap.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1953.

      • von Mises, R.  Positivism: a Study in Human Understanding.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1951.

      • Nagel, Ernst.  "Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe."  Journal of Philosophy 33 (1936): .

      • von Rintelen, Fritz Joachim.  "Neo-Positivism and its Relation to Natural Sciences."  Contemporary German Philosophy and its Background.  Bonn: Bouvier, 1970.  29-35.

      • Uebel, Thomas E.  "Otto Neurath, the Vienna Circle and the Austrian Tradition."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  249-269.

      • Weinberg, J. R.  An Examination of Logical Positivism.  London: Kegan Paul 1936.

    • Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy:

      • Benveniste, Émile.  "La Philosophie analytique et le langage."  Études Philosophiques 18 (1963): 3-11. 

        • Rpt. as "Analytical Philosophy and Language."  Problems in General Linguistics.  Trans. Mary Elizabeth Meek.  Coral Gables: U of Miami P, 1971.  231-238.

      • Chapel, V.  Ordinary Language.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1964.

    • Recent:

      • Margolis, Joseph.  "A Biopsy of Recent Analytic Philosophy."  The Philosophical Forum 26.3 (1995): 161-188.

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      • Communication:

      • Human Nature:

        • Gender:

        • Race:

        • Sexuality:

      • Knowledge:

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      • Morality:

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      • Nature:

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      • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Religion:

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      • Society:

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