Contents:

Introduction: Metaphilosophical difficulties of linguistic philosophy / Richard Rorty --pt. 1. Classical statements of the thesis the philosophical questions are questions of language: The future of philosophy / Moritz Schlick --On the character of philosophical problems / Rudolf Carnap --Logical positivism, language, and the reconstruction of metaphysics (in part) / Gustav Bergmann --Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Rudolf Carnap --Systematically misleading expressions / Gilbert Ryle --Philosophical perplexity / John Wisdom --Moore and ordinary language / Norman Malcolm --pt. 2. Metaphilosophical problems of ideal-language philosophy: Language analysis and metaphysical inquiry / Irving Copi --Two criteria for an ideal language / Gustav Bergmann --Reply to Bergmann / Irving Copi --Russell's Philosophy of language (in part) / Max Black --Linguistic approaches to philosophical problems / Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz --Comments on the "proposal theory" of philosophy / Roderick Chisholm --Language and ontology / James W. Cornman --Semantic ascent (from Word and object) / Willard v. O. Quine --pt. 3. Metaphilosophical problems of ordinary-language philosophy: Philosophers and ordinary language / Roderick Chisholm --Arguments to meaninglessness: excluded opposites and paradigm cases (from Philosophical reasoning) / John Passmore --Why ordinary language needs reforming / Grover Maxwell and Herbert Feigl --When is ordinary language reformed? / Manley Thompson --Philosophical discoveries / Richard Hare --Do we discover our uses of words? / Paul Henle --Ascriptivism / Peter Geach --Uses of language and philosophical problems / James W. Cornman --J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson --J.L. Austin / Stuart Hampshire --J.L. Austin / J.O. Urmson and G. Warnock --Austin at criticism / Stanley Cavell --

The interpretation of language; words and concepts / Stuart Hampshire --pt. 4. Recapitulations, reconsiderations, and future prospects: Philosophy and the analysis of language / Dudley Shapere --Are all philosophical questions questions of language? / Stuart Hampshire --The history of analysis / J.O. Urmson --Discussion of Urmson's "The history of analysis" / (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium) --Analysis, science, and metaphysics / P.F. Strawson --Discussion of Strawson's "Analysis, science, and metaphysics" / (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium) --Language and reality / Max Black --The philosophical relevance of linguistic theory / Jerrold J. Katz --A pre-requisite for rational philosophical discussion / Yehoshua Bar-Hillel