Publications: Papers


Michael Beaney

Research Statement

Conference and Seminar Papers

 

2008

(1) ‘Function-Argument Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy’, in Peter Bernhard and Volker Peckhaus, eds., Methodisches Denken im Kontext, Paderborn: mentis, pp. 199-213. ISBN 978-3-89785-594-6.

(2) ‘Über den Sinn und die Bedeutung der Titel’, in Günter Löffladt, ed., Mathematik – Logik – Philosophie. Ideen und ihre historischen Wechselwirkungen, Frankfurt am Main: Harri Deutsch, 2007.

 

2007

(1) ‘Frege’s Use of Function-Argument Analysis and his Introduction of Truth-Values as Objects’, in Dirk Greimann, ed., Essays on Frege’s Conception of Truth, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 75, pp. 93-123.

(2) ‘The Analytic Turn in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy’, introduction to Michael Beaney, ed., The Analytic Turn, London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 1-30.

(3) ‘Conceptions of Analysis in the Early Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions: Some Comparisons and Relationships’ [abridged and revised version of 2002(1) below], in Michael Beaney, ed., The Analytic Turn, London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 196-216.

(4) ‘Is Analytic Philosophy an Illusion? A Reply to Preston’, The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, Nos. 132-3 (Double Issue, November 2006/February 2007). ISSN 1547-0334.

(5) ‘Introduction’, with Carlo Penco and Massimiliano Vignolo, introduction to Carlo Penco, Michael Beaney and Massimiliano Vignolo, eds., Explaining the Mental, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp. vi-xxxiv.

 

2006

(1) ‘Frege and the Role of Historical Elucidation: Methodology and the Foundations of Mathematics’, in José Ferreirós and Jeremy Gray, eds., The Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 49-71.

(2) ‘Soames on Philosophical Analysis’ (Critical Notice of Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century), Philosophical Books, 47 (June 2006), pp. 255-71. ISSN 0031-8051.

(3) ‘Wittgenstein on Language: From Simples to Samples’, in Ernest Lepore and Barry Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2006, pp. 40-59.

(4) ‘Rex Martin’s Reading of Collingwood’s Essay on Metaphysics’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 12, No. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 83-102. ISSN 1744-9413.

(5) ‘Naturalism and Mathematical Platonism’, Erwägen Wissen Ethik, 17, no.3 (December 2006), pp. 55-6.

(6) ‘Frege and the Paradox of Analysis’ [shortened version of 2005(7) below], Anales de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, 39, Buenos Aires: Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires.

 

2005

(1) ‘Introduction: Frege’s Philosophy in Context’, with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege’s Philosophy in Context, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 5-19. ISBN 0-415-30602-7.

(2) ‘Frege’s Life and Work: Chronology and Bibliography’, with Christian Thiel, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege’s Philosophy in Context, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 23-39. ISBN 0-415-30602-7.

(3) ‘Frege, Russell and Logicism’ [shortened and revised version of 2003(1) below], in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. I: Frege’s Philosophy in Context, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 213-40. ISBN 0-415-30602-7.

(4) ‘Introduction: Frege’s Philosophy of Logic’, with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. II: Frege’s Philosophy of Logic, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-10. ISBN 0-415-30603-5.

(5) ‘Introduction: Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics’, with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. III: Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-12. ISBN 0-415-30604-3.

(6) ‘Introduction: Frege’s Philosophy of Thought and Language’, with Erich H. Reck, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. IV: Frege’s Philosophy of Thought and Language, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1-10. ISBN 0-415-30605-1.

(7) ‘Sinn, Bedeutung and the Paradox of Analysis’, in Michael Beaney and Erich H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. IV: Frege’s Philosophy of Thought and Language, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 288-310. ISBN 0-415-30605-1.

(8) ‘The Rise and Fall of German Philosophy’ (Essay Review of Thomas Baldwin, ed., The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13 (August 2005), pp. 543-62. ISSN 0960-8788.

(9) ‘Collingwood’s Conception of Presuppositional Analysis’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 11, no.2, pp. 41-114. ISSN 1744-9413.

 

2004

(1) ‘Carnap’s Conception of Explication: From Frege to Husserl?’, in Steve Awodey and Carsten Klein, eds., Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena, Chicago: Open Court, 2004, pp. 117-50. ISBN 0-8126-9551-8.

(2) ‘Gottlob Frege: The Light and Dark Sides of Genius’ (Essay Review of Lothar Kreiser, Gottlob Frege: Leben – Werk – Zeit), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 12 (February 2004), pp. 159-68. ISSN 0960-8788.

 

2003

(1) ‘Russell and Frege’, in Nicholas Griffin, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Russell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 128-70. ISBN 0-521-63634-5. Repr. in a shortened and revised form as 2005(3) above.

(2) ‘Analysis’, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published in April 2003, 50pp. + 70pp. bib.

(3) ‘Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna Analysis’, in Friedrich Stadler, ed., The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 10 [2002], Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, pp. 339-50. ISBN 1-4020-1269-1.

 

2002

(1) ‘Decompositions and Transformations: Conceptions of Analysis in the Early Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions’, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 40 (2002), Supp. Vol., pp. 53-99. ISSN 0038-4283.

(2) ‘Kant and Analytic Methodology’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 10 (August 2002), pp. 455-66. ISSN 0960-8788.

 

2001

(1) ‘Collingwood’s Critique of Analytic Philosophy’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 8 (2001), pp. 99-122. ISSN 1356-0670, ISBN 0-9524393-7-9.

(2) ‘Conceptions of Logical Analysis’ [shorter but revised version of 2000(1) below], in Ondrej Majer, ed., The Logica Yearbook 2000, Prague: Filosofia, 2001, pp. 57-70. ISBN 80-7007-149-4.

(3) ‘From Conceptual Analysis to Serious Metaphysics’ (Critical Notice of Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics), International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9 (November 2001), pp. 521-9. ISSN 0967-2559.

(4) ‘Rationality and Reasonableness’ [revised version of 2000(2) below], in B. Brogaard and B. Smith, eds., Rationality and Irrationality / Rationalität und Irrationalität: Proceedings of the 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium , Vienna: öbv & hpt, 2001, pp. 18-24. ISBN 3-209-03648-9.

 

2000

(1) ‘Conceptions of Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy’, Acta Analytica, 15 (Issue 25, 2000), pp. 97-115. ISSN 0353 5150.

(2) ‘Rationality and Reasonableness’, in Berit Brogaard, ed., Rationality and Irrationality, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Volume 8, Part 1 (Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2000), pp. 64-9. ISSN 1022 3398.

 

1999

‘Presuppositions and the Paradoxes of Confirmation’, Disputatio, 6 (May 1999), pp. 28-34. ISSN 0873-626X.

 

1998

(1) ‘What is Analytic Philosophy? Recent Work on the History of Analytic Philosophy’ [Review of Ray Monk and Anthony Palmer, eds., Bertrand Russell and the Origins of Analytical Philosophy (Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1996); Hans-Johann Glock, ed., The Rise of Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1997); Matthias Schirn, ed., Frege: Importance and Legacy (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996); Stuart G. Shanker, ed., Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IX (Routledge, 1996); John Blackmore, ed., Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906 (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995)], British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6 (October 1998), pp. 463-72. ISSN 0960-8788.

(2) ‘Re-engendering Logic: Feminism and the History and Philosophy of Logic’, in Sasha Roseneil, ed., Feminist Scholarship: Within/Across/Between/Beyond the Disciplines, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds, Working Paper 1, Autumn 1998.

 

1997

‘Introduction’ to The Frege Reader, ed. Michael Beaney, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 1-46. ISBN 0-631-19444-4 (hardback), 0-631-19445-2 (paperback).

 

1987

‘Mistakes and Mismatches: a Reply to Rudebusch’, Mind, 96 (January 1987), pp. 95-8. ISSN 0026-4423.

 

January 2008