20th Century Philosophy

Assistant editor: Michael Versteeg (University of Western Ontario)
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Summary Papers within this category include work about 20th century philosophy and major philosophical works from the twentieth century. They are organised according to proper names, with many of the most famous 20th century philosophers having entries.
Key works Few books, if any, manage to provide a decent overview of Western philosophy in the twentieth century, which has seen the burgeoning of the analytic tradition, as well as various developments within the 'Continental' tradition, such as phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, structuralism and poststructuralism. Some important works and movements of twentieth century Western philosophy fit uneasily within such labels (e.g. pragmatism, feminism). Detailed historical work can be found regarding particular periods, especially as concerns early analytic philosophy and phenomenology; some overviews of large parts of this period of philosophy include: Reynolds et al 2010 Chase & Reynolds 2010 Overgaard 2010 Critchley 2001 Glock 2008
Introductions Reynolds et al 2010 Chase & Reynolds 2010 Overgaard 2010 Critchley 2001 Glock 2008 E. Cooper 19934 Levy 2003
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20th Century Analytic Philosophy (3,228 | 94)
G. E. M. Anscombe (25)
J. L. Austin (41)
A. J. Ayer (9)
C. D. Broad (642)
Rudolf Carnap (190 | 31)Thomas Mormann
Carnap: Epistemology (13)
Carnap: Ontology (20)
Carnap: Philosophy of Language (12)
Carnap: Philosophy of Logic (11)
Carnap: Philosophy of Science (32 | 9)
Carnap: Physicalism (3)
Carnap: Confirmation and Verification (6)
Carnap: Probability and Inductive Logic (4)
Carnap: Philosophy of Science, Misc (10)
Carnap: Works (21 | 2)
Carnap: Der Raum (0)
Carnap: Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (12)
Carnap: Logical Syntax of Language (24)
Carnap: Meaning and Necessity (1)
Carnap: Works, Misc (6)
Carnap's Intellectual Context (31)
Carnap, Misc (19)
Roderick Chisholm (8)
Donald Davidson (135)H. G. Callaway
Paul Feyerabend (34)Howard Sankey
Philippa Foot (5)
Gottlob Frege (295 | 11)Thorsten Sander
Frege: Philosophy of Language (127)
Frege: Singular Terms (22 | 2)
Frege: Genuine Proper Names (2)
Frege: The First-Person Pronoun (5)
Frege: Descriptions (5)
Frege: Singular Terms, Misc (2)
Frege: Indexicals and Demonstratives, Misc (24)
Frege: Sinn and Bedeutung (55 | 8)
Frege: Sinn (11)
Frege: Criteria for Sense Identity (8)
Frege: Thoughts (6)
Frege: Parts of Thoughts (2)
Frege: Bedeutung (36)
Frege: Indirect Reference (8)
Frege: Sinn and Bedeutung, Misc (9)
Frege: Aspects of Content (14)
Frege: Force (21)
Frege: Coloring or Tone (5)
Frege: Sinn and Bedeutung* (55 | 8)
Frege: Presupposition (2)
Frege: Aspects of Content, Misc (3)
Frege: Functions and Concepts (17)
Frege: The Concept Horse Problem (8)
Frege: Vagueness (1)
Frege: Functions and Concepts, Misc (8)
Frege: Context Principle (4)
Frege: Fiction (3)
Frege: Philosophy of Language, Misc (3)
Frege: Logic and Philosophy of Logic (69)Tabea Rohr
Frege: Conception of Logic (10)
Frege: Definitions and Conceptual Analysis (7)
Frege: Truth and Assertion (8)
Frege: Definability of Truth (4)
Frege: Identity (3)
Frege: Existence (2)
Frege: Judgment Stroke (16)
Frege: Critique of Psychologism (6)
Frege: Abstract Objects (7)
Frege: Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Misc (19)
Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics (39)
Frege: The Caesar Problem (5)
Frege: Basic Law V (5)
Frege: Value-Ranges (0)
Frege: Frege's Theorem (1)
Frege: Abstraction Principles (4)
Frege: Real Numbers (1)
Frege: Philosophy of Geometry (3)
Frege: Analyticity (0)
Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics, Misc (13)
Frege: Works (25 | 3)
Frege: Begriffsschrift (3)
Frege: Grundlagen (2)
Frege: Grundgesetze (7)
Frege: Über Sinn und Bedeutung (4)
Frege: Der Gedanke (2)
Frege: Works, Misc (103)
Frege, Misc (24 | 1)
Frege: Biography (8)
Frege: Intellectual Context (12)
Frege: Introductions (55)
Frege: Miscellaneous (4)
Nelson Goodman (19)
Paul Grice (13)
Thomas Kuhn (102)Howard Sankey
Imre Lakatos (49)Howard Sankey
David Lewis (58)
G. E. Moore (47)
Derek Parfit (15)
Karl Popper (227 | 4)Howard Sankey
Popper: Epistemology (37 | 4)
Popper: Critical Rationalism (25)
Popper: Epistemic Fallibilism (1)
Popper: Evolutionary Epistemology (3)
Popper: Relativism (10)
Popper: Epistemology, Misc (3)
Popper: Metaphysics (70 | 8)
Popper: Free Will (12)
Popper: Three Worlds (31)
Popper: Metaphysics, Misc (19)
Popper: Philosophy of Science (134 | 24)
Popper: Scientific Discovery (2)
Popper: Demarcation of Science (34)
Popper: Falsification (47)
Popper: Induction (8)
Popper: Philosophy of Probability (7)
Popper: Scientific Realism (3)
Popper: Truth and Verisimilitude (5)Gustavo Cevolani
Popper: Philosophy of Specific Sciences (6)Howard Sankey
Popper: Philosophy of Biology (1)
Popper: Philosophy of Economics (22)
Popper: Philosophy of Physics (0)
Popper: Philosophy of Social Science (2)
Popper: Philosophy of Specific Sciences, Misc (0)
Popper: Philosophy of Science, Misc (16)
Popper: Philosophy of Mind (2)
Popper: Psychoanalysis (8)
Popper: Social and Political Philosophy (10)
Popper and Other Philosophers (12)
Popper: Intellectual Context (6)
Popper: Works (4 | 2)
Popper: Conjectures and Refutations (0)
Popper: Logic of Scientific Discovery (2)
Popper: Open Society and its Enemies (66)
Popper: Objective Knowledge (0)
Popper: Poverty of Historicism (0)
Popper, Misc (235)
W. V. O. Quine (158)H. G. Callaway
John Rawls (250)Shaun Young
Bertrand Russell (157)Kevin Klement
Gilbert Ryle (26)
Wilfrid Sellars (80)Willem A. DeVries
P. F. Strawson (74)
Alfred Tarski (24)Angel Garrido
Bernard Williams (768)Matthieu Queloz
Ludwig Wittgenstein (748)Edmund Dain
Logical Empiricism (87)Sebastian Lutz
20th Century Analytic Philosophy, Misc (120)
20th Century Continental Philosophy (486 | 174)Farhang Erfani
Theodor W. Adorno* (1,787)Nicholas Joll
Giorgio Agamben* (59)Wesley Costa
Louis Althusser* (32)
Hannah Arendt (116)Nicholas Dunn
Roland Barthes* (6)
Alain Badiou* (31)Justin Dominic Clemens
Henri Bergson (72)
Walter Benjamin* (45)Chad Kautzer
Simone de Beauvoir* (52)
Judith Butler* (36)
Albert Camus* (30)Peter Francev
Gilles Deleuze* (294)Marco Altamirano
Jacques Derrida* (274 | 65)
Michel Foucault* (6,079)Mark G. E. Kelly
Hans-Georg Gadamer* (130)Theodore George
Aron Gurwitsch* (1)
Jürgen Habermas* (88)Chad Kautzer
Martin Heidegger* (653)Mark Ralkowski
Michel Henry* (8)Michael R. Kelly
Edmund Husserl* (1,037 | 84)Chad Kidd
Max Horkheimer* (22)Chad Kautzer
Roman Ingarden* (21)
Luce Irigaray* (17)
Karl Jaspers* (14)
Julia Kristeva* (18)
Jacques Lacan* (79)
Claude Levi-Strauss* (11)Beata Stawarska
Emmanuel Levinas* (95)
Georg Lukacs (20)
Jean-François Lyotard* (18)Ashley Woodward
Jan Patocka* (6)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty* (226)David Morris
Jean-Luc Nancy* (30)Marie-Eve Morin
Jacques Rancière* (705 | 11)Jean-Philippe Deranty and Alison F. Ross
Adolf Reinach* (22)
Paul Ricoeur* (48)Martijn Boven
Jean-Paul Sartre* (104)Matthew Eshleman
Ferdinand de Saussure* (9)Beata Stawarska
Max Scheler* (56)J. Edward Hackett
Alfred Schuetz* (17)
Gilbert Simondon (2)Josh Lalonde
Edith Stein* (18)
Leo Strauss (4)
Slavoj Zizek* (1,773 | 539)Geoffrey Pfeifer
20th Century Continental Philosophy, Misc (98)
20th Century Philosophy, Miscellaneous (9,571 | 167)
Jane Addams (22)
Ernst Cassirer (629)
Stanley Cavell (83)
R. G. Collingwood (698)José Juan González
W.E.B. Du Bois (16)
Mahatma Gandhi (18)
John Dewey (2,791)
Charles Hartshorne (333)
Martin Luther King (7)
Alain Locke (6)
Friedrich Hayek (287)
Richard Rorty (1,173)
George Santayana (824)
Alfred North Whitehead (1,357)
Iris Marion Young (69)
20th Century Logic (576)
20th Century Philosophy of Mathematics (18)
20th Century Philosophy of Science (31 | 13)
Carnap: Philosophy of Science* (265 | 123)
Pierre Duhem* (91)Milena Ivanova
Thomas Kuhn* (955)Howard Sankey
Henri Poincaré* (79)Milena Ivanova
Imre Lakatos* (422)Howard Sankey
Popper: Philosophy of Science* (887 | 153)
Logical Empiricism* (607)Sebastian Lutz
Paul Feyerabend* (456)Howard Sankey
20th Century Philosophy of Science, Misc (18)
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