Beyond Analytic Philosophy Doing Justice to What We Know Hao Wang Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Russell and philosophy in this century 45 2. A digression on Wittgenstein's philosophy 75 3. From Vienna 1925 to America 1984 101 4. Quine's logical negativism 153 5. Metaphilosophical observations 191 References 215 Chronological table 231 Index 261

本卷包括兩部論著：《集合論及其邏輯》（1963）和《邏輯哲學》（1970）。前者是一部關於抽象集合論及其各種公理方法系統化的導引性著作。作者從一種對無窮類的存在無所示意的形式系統開始，在需要假定無窮類時，他容許這些假定只作為特別定理的明說的假設。在帶有總結性的最後幾章中，他描述了羅素的類型論、策梅洛系統、馮·諾尹曼系統和他本人的兩個系統，以及當時的某些發展，還探索了這些系統之間的邏輯聯繫。在後者中，作者把邏輯說成是真與文法這兩個因素的合成物，但是他反對把邏輯真視為因文法或語言而真。他提供了一種一般的文法理論，討論了邏輯的疆界和可能的擴育，論證了邏輯並不僅僅是言辭的事情。

All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understanding which philosophy seeks to achieve. In this book one of the most distinguished of living philosophers, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader, sets out to explain and illustrate a certain conception of the nature of analytical philosophy. Professor Strawson draws on his many years of teaching at Oxford University, during which he refined and developed what he regards as the most productive route to understanding the fundamental structure of human thinking. Among the distinctive features of his exposition are the displacement of an older, reductive conception of philosophical method (the ideal of 'analysing' complex ideas into simpler elements) in favour of elucidating the interconnections between the complex but irreducible notions which form the basic structure of our thinking; and the demonstration that the three traditionally distinguished departments of metaphysics (ontology), epistemology, and logic are but three aspects of one unified enquiry. He has produced an elegant work that will be invaluable to students and stimulating for professional philosophers and general readers alike.

本书共6卷，大致按年代顺序编辑而成。但出于各卷篇幅方面的考试，有时也打破了这种顺序。 　　第1卷收入两部论著：《威拉德·范·奥曼·蒯因自传》和《数理逻辑》 　　第2卷收入两部论著：《逻辑方法》和《本体论的相对性及其他论文》 　　第3卷收入两部论著：《集合论及其逻辑》和《逻辑哲学》　　 　　第4卷收入三部论著：《从逻辑的观点看》、《指称之根》以及《语词和对象》 　　第5卷收入两部论著：《悖论的方式及其他论文》和《信念之网》 　　第6卷收入四部论著：《理论和事物》、《一些离奇的想法——一部不连贯的哲学辞典》、《真之追求》、《从刺激到科学》 　　以上6卷收入了蒯因的绝大部分逻辑论著和哲学论著，只有少数论著未收入。

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology." With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.

本书主旨是解决或者说消解心灵何以关联到世界的问题，进而是解决或者说消解经验思维何以具有经验内容的问题。作者认为近现代哲学家有关这个问题的思考导致了各种各样的忧虑。消除这些忧虑的唯一方式是彻底放弃我们有关经验或印象的根深蒂固的观念，即认为经验或印象只是单纯自然的事件，转而承认我们的概念能力实际上已经在经验或印象那里发挥作用了。