The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since.

"All too rarely an anthology is put together that reflects imagination, command, and comprehensiveness. Rorty's collection is just such a book."Review of Metaphysics

Introduction

Richard M. Rorty - Metaphysical Difficulties of Linguistic Philosophy

Part I - Classic Statements of the Thesis That Philosophical Questions Are Questions of Language

1. Moritz Schlick - The Future of Philosophy

2. Rudolf Carnap - On the Character of Philosophical Problems

3. Gustav Bergmann - Logical Positivism, Language, and the Reconstruction of Metaphysics (in part)

4. Rudolf Carnap - Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology

5. Gilbert Ryle - Systematically Misleading Expressions

6. John Wisdom - Philosophical Perplexity

7. Norman Malcolm - Moore and Ordinary Language

Part II - Metaphilosophical Problems of Ideal-Language Philosophy

8a. Irving Copi - Language Analysis and Metaphysical Inquiry

8b. Gustav Bergmann - Two Criteria for an Ideal Language

8c. Irving Copi - Reply to Bergmann

9. Max Black - Russell's Philosophy of Language (in part)

10a. Alice Ambrose - Linguistic Approaches to Philosophical Problems

10b. Roderick Chisholm Comments on the "Proposal Theory" of Philosophy

11. James W. Cornman - Language and Ontology

12. Willard v. O. Quine - Semantic Ascent (from Word and Object)

Part III - Metaphilosophical Problems of Ordinary-Language Philosophy

13. Roderick Chisholm - Philosophers and Ordinary Language

14. John Passmore - Arguments to Meaninglessness: Excluded Opposites and Paradigm Cases (from Philosophical Reasoning)

15a. Grover Maxwell and Herbert Feigl - Why Ordinary Language Needs Reforming

15b. Manley Thompson - When Is Ordinary Language Reformed?

16a. Richard Hare - Philosophical Discoveries

16b. Paul Henle - Do We Discover Our Uses of Words?

17. Peter Geach - Ascriptivism

18. James W. Cornman - Uses of Language and Philosophical Problems

19. J. O. Urmson - J. L. Austin

20a. Stuart Hampshire - J. L. Austin

20b. J. O. Urmson and G. Warnock - J. L. Austin

20c. Stanley Cavell - Austin at Criticism

21. Stuart Hampshire - The Interpretation of Language; Words and Concepts

Part IV - Recapitulations, Reconsiderations, and Future Prospects

22. Dudley Shapere - Philosophy and the Analysis of Language

23. Stuart Hampshire - Are All Philosophical Questions Questions of Language?

24a. J. O. Urmson - The History of Analysis

24b. Discussion of Urmson's "The History of Analysis" (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium)

25a. P. F. Strawson - Analysis, Science, and Metaphysics

25b. Discussion of Strawson's "Analysis, Science and Metaphysics" (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium)

26. Max Black - Language and Reality

27. Jerrold J. Katz - The Philosophical Relevance of Linguistic Theory

28. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel - A Pre-Requisite for Rational Philosophical Discussion

Two Retrospective Essays by Richard M. Rorty

Ten Years After

Twenty-five Years After

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