/lit/ - Literature

>>18555613
Wittgenstein was not an analytical philosopher though. He inspired them and worked on some issues but his goal was ultimately different. The means don’t determine the ends; even if they may justify them.

>>18555630
this, wittgenstein understood the futility of the analytic project

Saussure

I wish I inherited as much wealth as good old Ludwig. The guy just assblasted his way through life.

philosophical investigations by wittgenstein is good... my favourite... finished philosophy imo..
great what i have read of it. a lot of it is quite difficult. i would like to read more if i had the time.

another read that is in a similar vein to philosophical investigations is WO Quine's Word and Object. It is an easier read when it doesn't get too technical on logic. But I reckon the most insightful parts of the book are not techical at all.

>>18555613
Peter Railton's take on moral realism is relatively recent (so you wont bust your balls reading it) and still rigorously analytic.

>https://www.jstor.org/stable/2185589?origin=JSTOR-pdf

I would also say Thomas Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions is more or less an extrapolation of wittgenstein and quines work into the philosophy of science and so would recommend that too even if it is probably not considered analytical philosophy and deals more with the history and philosophy of science but i would say his book is just as important and there is no fine distinction between philosophy of science and analytical philosophy.

But yes If you look, both philosophical investigations and word and object can be found as free pdfs on the internet. Im sure the same is true for scientific revolutions but i want to direct your attention to this page
https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhnsnap.html

if you scroll to the links at the bottom you will find a very nice synopsis of the whole book ordered by chapter and detailed enough to get all the major points without being the actual book.

>>18555613
We should construct a relatively comprehensive list of important works in the history of analytic philosophy. Maybe we should divide it into periods (Fregean-Russellian, Wittgensteinian, Lewisian).
So far, I've got: Frege, Meinong, Ramsey, Moore, Russell, Gödel, Schlick, and Neurath for the early period, Sellars, Carnap, Quine, Davidson, Kuhn, Austin, Ryle, Ayer, Grice, Hempel, Goodman, Nozick, Strawson, Kuhn for the middle, and Kripke, Lewis, Putnam, Dummett, Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Armstrong, Williamson, McDowell, Searle and Chalmers for the contemporary period

>>18558231
Got to add Van Frassen if including philosophers of science

>>18558319
Brouwer too, if Dummett is going to be included

The truth is that there is no complete declarative definition of "dog". Our knowledge of "dog" is entirely implicit. Declarative facts about dogs are red herrings.

>>18555613
I just finished Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Language. What a tome. Far-reaching, difficult, but rewarding. Would highly recommend it, but it's quite advanced, so not for people new to analytic philosophy. Anyway I think the most interesting work in analytic philosophy is the linguistic philosophy (including philosophy of language) done from Frege til the period shortly after ordinary language philosophy (stuff like Davidson and Dummett), followed by the revival of metaphysics (Kripke, Lewis, etc) and the ascendancy of what is called "metametaphysics," which continues to the present day. Be careful with everything else, they operate too narrowly within paradigms set by their determined areas of expertise. The others push the limits of paradigms and constantly critique themselves which I think is more interesting, and has the best capacity for bridgework with any interested continentals.

Do you guys have that image of either Cambridge or Oxford's (if I'm remembering correctly) literature class readings for years 1 to 4? It's a white image with yellow/gold borders. I believe it's for undergraduate too.

Thanks

>>18558022
He gave his wealth away in 1919 and refused a penny from anyone. He smelled like shit and lived off his teacher pay or a very modest salary at trinity.

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