The Linguistic turn: essays in philosophical method

Introduction / Richard M. Rorty

Part I. Classic statements of the thesis that philosophical questions are questions of language:

1. The future of philosophy / Moritz Schlick

2. On the character of philosophical problems / Rudolf Carnap

3. Logical positivism, language, and the reconstructiion of metaphysics (in part) / Gustav Bergmann

4. Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Rudolf Carnap

5. Systematically misleading expressions / John Wisdom

6. Philosophical perplexity / John Wisdom

Moore and ordinary language / Norman Malcolm

Part II. Metaphilosophical problems of ideal-language philosophy:

8a. Analysis and metaphysical inquiry / Irving Copi

8b. Two criteria for an ideal language / Gustav Bergmann

8c. Reply to Bergmann / Irving Copi

9. Russell's philosophy of language (in part) / Max Black

10a. Linguistic approaches to philosophical problems / Alice Ambrose

10b. Comments on the "Proposal theory" of philosophy

11. Language and ontology / James W. Cornman

12. Semantic ascent (from Word and object) / Willard v. O. Quine

Part III. Metaphilosophical problems of ordinary-language philosophy:

13. Philosophers and ordinary language / Roderick Chisholm

14. Arguments to meaninglessness: excluded opposites and paradigm cases (from Philosophical reasoning) / John Passmore

15a. Why ordinary language needs reforming / Grover Maxwell and Herbert Feigl

15b. When is ordinary language reformed? / Manley Thompson

16a. Philosophical discoveries / Richard Hare

16b. Do we discover our uses of words? / Paul Henle

17. Ascriptivism / Peter Geach

18. Uses of language and philosophical problems / James W. Cornman

19. J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson

20a. J.L. Austin / Stuart Hampshire

20b. J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson and G. Warnock

21. The interpretation of language: words and concepts / Stuart Hampshire

Part IV. Recapitulations, reconsiderations, and future prospects:

22. Philosophy and the analysis of language / Dudley Shapere

23. Are all philosophical questions questions of language? / Stuart Hampshire

24a. The history of analysis / J.O. Urmson

24b. Discussion of Urmson's "The history of analysis" / by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium

25a. Analysis, science, and metaphysics / P.F. Strawson

25b. Discussion of Strawson's "Analysis, science, and metaphysics" / by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium

26. Language and reality / Max Black

27. The philosophical relevance of linguistic theory

28. A pre-requisite for rational philosophical discussion

Two retospective essays:

Ten years after ; Twenty-five years after / by Richard M. Rorty.