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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; 1. Editor's Introduction: Interpreting the Analytic Tradition; Notes; References; 2. Idealism and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Moore Interprets Kant and Bradley; Idealism in Britain and in Germany; Moore Interprets Idealism; Notes; References; 3. The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy; Notes; References; 4. Russell, Ryle, and Phenomenology: An Alternative Parsing of the Ways; Husserl and Early Analytic Philosophy; Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy; Conclusion; Notes; References.

Introduction: the peculiar career of analytic philosophy -- The identity crisis in analytic philosophy -- A crisis within the crisis: the problem of revisionist history -- Against revisionism -- On the trail of an illusion -- The root of the illusion of unity -- The root of the illusion of promise

One would expect that so successful and controversial a philosophical school as analytic philosophy would have a clear platform of substantive philosophical views. However, this is not so. For at least 30 years, analytic philosophy has consisted in an increasingly loose and variable amalgam of philosophical topics, views and methods. This state of affairs has led some to claim that, despite its professional entrenchment, analytic philosophy is in a state of crisis. Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion argues that this is so, and that the crisis is deeper and more longstanding than i

Moral knowledge disappears -- A "science of ethics"? -- G.E. Moore: from science of ethics to nihilism -- Emotivism: the erasure of moral knowledge -- A rational form of noncognitivism? "Rational necessity relocated" -- A consensus of rational people: social constructionism in Rawls -- Practices, traditions, and narratives: social constructionism in MacIntyre -- Prospects for a return of moral knowledge

chapter 1 Moral Knowledge Disappears -- chapter 2 A "Science of Ethics"? -- chapter 3 G. E. Moore: From Science of Ethics to Nihilism -- chapter 4 Emotivism: The Erasure of Moral Knowledge -- chapter 5 A Rational Form of Noncognitivism? "Rational Necessity" Relocated -- chapter 6 A Consensus of Rational People: Social Constructionism in Rawls -- chapter 7 Practices, Traditions and Narratives: Social Constructionism in MacIntyre -- chapter 8 Prospects for a Return of Moral Knowledge.