Analytical Philosophy


Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Investigations
The Problems of Philosophy
On Certainty
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Origins of Analytical Philosophy
Representation and Reality (Representation and Mind)
Principia Ethica
A History of Western Philosophy
Language, Truth and Logic
How to Do Things with Words
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
The Concept of Mind
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine
Language is a social art.
Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object

Alasdair MacIntyre
Analytic philosophy, that is to say, can very occasionally produce practically conclusive results of a negative kind. It can show in a few cases that just too much incoherence and inconsistency is involved in some position for any reasonable person to continue to hold it. But it can never establish the rational acceptability of any particular position in cases where each of the alternative rival positions available has sufficient range and scope and the adherents of each are willing to pay the p ...more
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

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