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Part IB History of Analytic Philosophy

This is a draft and is likely going to undergo large changes before the start of Lent term 2024.

Frege

Week 2:

• Frege, G. (1948). Sense and Reference. The Philosophical Review, 57(3), 209–230. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2181485

Week 3:

• Frege, G. (1956). The Thought: A Logical Inquiry. Mind, 65(259), 289–311. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2251513

Russell

Week 4:

• Russell, B. (1910). Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 11, 108–128. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4543805

Ramsey

Week 5:

• Ramsey, F. P. (1927). Symposium: Facts and Propositions. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, 7, 153–206. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4106403

Wittgenstein

Week 6:

• Moore, A. W. (1987). On Saying and Showing. Philosophy, 62(242), 473–497. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3750928

Week 7:

• Read the Preface to the Tractatus and this passage from Wittgenstein’s 1919 letter to Ludwig Ficker, in which Wittgenstein wrote of the Tractatus that

[…] the point of the book is an ethical one. I once wanted to include in the preface a sentence that is now actually not there, but that I will write to you now since it might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my book consists of two parts: of the one that is present here and of everything I have not written. Precisely this second part is the important one. For the ethical is delimited as it were from the inside by my book; and I am convinced that strictly speaking it can ONLY be delimited in this way. In short I think: everything of which many nowadays are blethering, I have defined in my book by being silent about it […]. I would recommend you to read the preface and the conclusion since they express the point most directly

• Wittgenstein, L. 1922. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, §§6.4–7.
• Wittgenstein L. A Lecture on Ethics. The Philosophical Review. 1965;74(1):3-12.
• Diamond, C. (2000). Ethics, Imagination And The Method Of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. In The New Wittgenstein, Routledge.