The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015 (Hardcover)

Introduction. Philosophical reflections on the recent history of philosophy; Part I. Analytic Philosophy: Section 1. Language, Mind, Epistemology: 1. Analytic philosophy of language: from first philosophy to foundations of linguistic science; 2. Analyticity: the Carnap-Quine debate and its aftermath; 3. Philosophy of linguistics; 4. Varieties of externalism, linguistic and mental; 5. An analytic-hermeneutic history of consciousness; 6. Computational philosophies of mind; 7. Philosophy of action; 8. Contemporary responses to radical scepticism; 9. Post-Gettier epistemology; Section 2. Logic, Metaphysics, Science: 10. Logic in the second half of the twentieth century; 11. (Re)discovering ground; 12. Lewis' theories of causation and their influence; 13. Naturalism from the mid-twentieth century to the present: Quine's 'Hegelianism', Armstrong's empiricism, and the rise of liberal naturalism; 14. The history of philosophy of science; 15. A modern synthesis of philosophy and biology; Section 3. Analytic Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy: 16. The revival of virtue ethics; 17. Kantian ethics; 18. Consequentialism and its critics; 19. The rediscovery of metanormativity: from Prichard to Raz by way of Falk; 20. Constitutivism; 21. John Rawls's political liberalism; 22. The twilight of the liberal social contract: on the reception of Rawlsian political liberalism; 23. Feminist philosophy and real politics: Susan Moller Okin on 'multiculturalism'; Section 4. Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion: 24. Analytic aesthetics and philosophy of art; 25. Philosophy of religion; Part II. Continental Philosophy: Section 5. Central Movements and Issues: 26. Existentialism; 27. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on freedom; 28. Heidegger, critical theory, and the critique of technology; 29. Authenticity and social critique; 30. Hermeneutics in post-war Continental European philosophy; 31. Feminist philosophy since 1945: the evolution of feminist materialism; 32. Philosophies of difference; Section 6. Continental Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy: 33. The concept of autonomy in the history of the Frankfurt School; 34. Emerging ethics; 35. Leo Strauss: political philosophy as first philosophy; 36. Critical environmental philosophy; 37. Philosophy of technology; 38. Philosophy of education and the 'education of reason': post-foundational approaches through Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault; Section 7. Continental Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion: 39. The bearing of film on philosophy; 40. Aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and the avant-garde; 41. Continental philosophy of religion; Part III. Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy: Section 8. Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers: 42. Rethinking the analytic/Continental divide; 43. Phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy; 44. Phenomenology meets philosophy of mind and language; 45. The impact of pragmatism; 46. Unruly readers, unruly words: Wittgenstein and language; 47. Anglo-American existential phenomenology; 48. A conceptual genealogy of the Pittsburgh School: between Kant and Hegel; Section 9. Comparative Philosophy: 49. Authenticity and the right to philosophy: on Latin American philosophy's great debate; 50. The East in the West: Chinese, Japanese, and Indian philosophy in the twentieth century; 51. Jewish philosophy and the Shoah Claire Katz; Part IV. Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy: 52. Developments and debates in the historiography of philosophy.