This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. Drawing together a venerable group of contributors, including John Rawls and Hilary Putnam, this volume explores the historical contexts in which analytic philosophers have worked, revealing multiple discontinuities and misunderstandings as well as a complex interaction between science and philosophical reflection.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-455) and index.

Introduction / Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh. — Frege's conception if logic / Warren Goldfarb. — Theory and elucidation: the age of the innocence / Joan Weiner. — Bolzano, Frege, and Husserl on reference and object / Dagfinn F²llesdal. — Ernst Mach at the crossroads of twentieth-century philosophy / Jaakko Hintikka. — Truth and propositional unity in early Russell / Thomas Ricketts. — Husserl and the linguistic turn / Charles Parsons. — Number and ascriptions of number in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Juliet Floyd. — Heidegger's response to skepticism in Being and Time / Edward H. Minar. — Confessions of a confirmed extensionalist / W.V. Quine. — Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's Philosophy on mathematics / Michael Friedman. — "The defensible province of philosophy": Quine's 1934 lectures on Carnap / Peter Hylton. — Hans Reichenbach: realist and verificationist / Hilary Putman. — Sure path of a science: Kant in the analytic tradition / Susan Neiman. — Non-negotiable demands: metaphysics, politics and the discourse of needs / Naomi Scheman. — Language as social software / Rohit Parikh. — Silences noises voices / Stanley Cavell. — Long decimals / W.D. Hart. — Meaning, rigidity, and modality / Sanford Shieh. — Epistemology and science in the image of modern philosophy: Rorty on Descartes and Locke / Gary Hatfield. — Formal losses / Gerald E. Sacks. — Afterword: a reminiscence / John Rawls.