Matt LaVine argues that there is more potential in bringing the history of early analytic philosophy and critical theories of race and gender together than has been traditionally recognized. In particular, he explores the changes associated with a shift from revolutionary aspects of early analytic philosophy.

• Cover
• Race, Gender, and theHistory of Early AnalyticPhilosophy
• Race, Gender, and theHistory of Early AnalyticPhilosophy
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Part 1
  • Introduction
    • §0.1 Contemporary Disagreements on Social Justice and the History of Analytic Philosophy
    • §0.2 The Meaning(s) of “Analytic Philosophy”
    • §0.3 The Progression of Analytic Philosophy—the Five-Stage Picture
    • §0.4 Preliminary Sketch of the Book
    • §0.5 Previewing the Rest of the Book
    • Notes
• Part 2: Race, Gender, and Analytic Philosophy (The Method)
  • Chapter 1
  • Discursive Injustice and the History of Analytic Philosophy
    • §1.1 Quentin Smith on the New Theory of Reference, Ruth Marcus, and Saul Kripke
    • §1.2 Scott Soames and John Burgess Respond to Quentin Smith
    • §1.3 Oddities in Soames’ and Burgess’ Responses
    • §1.4 Kukla on Discursive Injustice
    • §1.5 Discursive Injustice in This Case
    • §1.6 Concluding Thoughts on Discursive Injustice in the History of Philosophy
    • Notes
  • Chapter 2
  • The History (and Future) of Logic (and Ethics)
    • §2.1 Logic, Ethics, and the Discipline of Philosophy
    • §2.2 The History of Logic from 1847 to the Present
    • §2.3 Where (and Why) We Go from This History
    • §2.4 Deductive Prejudice
    • §2.5 A Potential Concern and a Path Forward
    • Notes
• Part3: Race, Gender, and Analytic Philosophy (The Movement)
  • Chapter 3
  • Starting Points in Philosophy and Starting Points in the Analytic Tradition
    • §3.1 Introduction to Stage 1 of Early Analytic Philosophy
    • §3.2 Moore on Common Sense
    • §3.3 Logical Problem(s) for Moorean Common Sense
    • §3.4 Ethical Problem(s) for Moorean Common Sense
    • §3.5 Susan Stebbing on Common Sense and Thinking to Some Purpose
    • §3.6 Charles Mills on Lived Experience of Oppression and Exclusion
    • §3.7 Mills’ and Stebbing’s Approaches and Solutions to the Two Problems
    • §3.8 Conclusions and Questions Moving Forward
    • Notes
  • Chapter 4
  • Post-Tractarian Critique of Metaphysics and Ethics
    • §4.1 Introduction to Stage 2 of Early Analytic Philosophy
    • §4.2 The Standard Readings of Tractarian Metaphysics and Ethics
    • §4.3 Standard Readings as a Major Challenge to the Book
    • §4.4 The Solution through the Metaphysics as Disguised Ethics Reading
    • §4.5 Bright on the Logical Empiricists on Race
    • §4.6 Problems with the Logical Empiricists’ Metaphysics and Ethics of Race
    • §4.7 Conclusions and Preview of the Rest of the Book
    • Notes
  • Chapter 5
  • Logical Empiricism and the Scientific Worldview
    • §5.1 Introduction to Stage 3 of Early Analytic Philosophy and Political Philosophies
    • §5.2 Sarah Richardson’s Arguments against LVC-POL
    • §5.3 Responding to Richardson 2009b
    • §5.4 Responding to Richardson (2009a)
    • §5.5 Assumed Objectivity, Epistemic Egalitarianism, Analyticity
    • §5.6 Conclusions and Questions Moving Forward
    • Notes
  • Chapter 6
  • Black Lives Matter and the Logic of Conversation
    • §6.1 Historical Introduction to Stage 4
    • §6.2 The Argument’s Preliminaries
    • §6.3 Background on the Black Lives Matter Movement
    • §6.4 A Preliminary Defense of “Black lives matter” over “All lives matter”
    • §6.5 Grice’s Logic of Conversation, Cooperative Principle, and Conversational Maxims
    • §6.6 “All lives matter” and the Maxims of Quantity and Relevance
    • §6.7 “Black Lives Matter” and the Maxims of Quality and Quantity
    • §6.8 “All lives matter,” “I don’t see color,” and Half-assed Attempts at Racial Equity
    • §6.9 Relationship to Other Current Liberation Movements and Slogans
    • §6.10 “We Shall Overcome,” “Freedom Now,” “Black Power,” Black Lives Matter
    • Notes
  • Chapter 7
  • Quinean Naturalized, Socialized Epistemology for Critical Theory
    • §7.1 The Fall of Ordinary Language Philosophy and a Multitude of New Directions
    • §7.2 Quinean Holism and Naturalism
    • §7.3 The Politically Revisionary and Naturalized Philosophy of Haslanger and Mills
    • §7.4 Haslanger and Mills as More Quinean than Quine
    • §7.5 Extending Haslanger and Mills with Viennese Thought
    • §7.6 Another Example of Politically Revisionary Naturalized Epistemology and Ontology
    • §7.7 Conclusions and Questions Moving Forward
    • Notes
• Part 4
  • Conclusion
    • §8.1 Summary of Conclusions
    • §8.2 Moving This Forward into a Research and Activism Program, Part I
    • §8.3 Moving This Forward into a Research and Activism Program, Part II
    • §8.4 Constraints on Such a Research Program
    • §8.5 Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author