I. Philosophical Inheritance
II. The revolt from Hegel. Bertrand Russell : His approach to philosophy ; The theory of descriptions and the theory of types ; His theories of knowledge and of what there is
G.E. Moore : Principia ethica ; Moore and Prichard ; The refutation of idealism ; The defence of common sense
III. Pragmatism. William James : The character of James's pragmatism ; Radical empiricism ; James's theory of truth
C.I. Lewis : His theories of knowledge and meaning ; His moral philosophy
IV. Wittgenstein, Popper and the Vienna Circle. The Tractatus and its sequels
Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap
The concentration on syntax
V. Wittgenstein, Carnap and Ryle. The later Wittgenstein
Gilbert Ryle and the concept of mind
VI. Physicalism. Broad on mind and matter
Strawson's concept of a person
VII. The philosophy of R.G. Collingwood. The influence of Croce
The theory of absolute presuppositions
Causality and the idea of nature
VIII. Phenomenology and existentialism. The foundation in Prentano and Husserl
Maurice Merleau-Ponty : His account of perception ; On the world as perceived
The early work of Heidegger and Sartre
IX. Later developments. Linguistic philosophy : J.L. Austin ; Noam Chomsky
