Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Biographic Data
| ID | 8657634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederique Janssen-Lauret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederique |
| FAMILY NAME | Janssen-Lauret |
| SIGNATURE | JANSSEN-LAURET F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching women into the history of early analytic philosophy
Susan Stebbing on Well-Foundedness
Susan Stebbing’s metaphysical method of directional analysis led her to query the assumption that reality must be well-founded and analysis must terminate in simples. If this is true, she argued, it is a contingent claim about how reality is constituted, not an analytic or logically necessary truth. I present an interpretation of Stebbing’s views about well-foundedness, linking her metaphysics to her philosophy of physics. My interpretation evinc…
Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic
Analytic philosophy in the mid-twentieth century underwent a major change of direction when a prior consensus in favour of extensionalism and descriptivism made way for approaches using direct reference, the necessity of identity, and modal logic. All three were first defended, in the analytic tradition, by one woman, Ruth Barcan Marcus. But analytic philosophers now tend to credit them to Kripke, or Kripke and Carnap. I argue that seeing Barcan …
Lost voices
This paper introduces a Special Issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on women in philosophy 1880-1970. It argues that there are social, institutional and academic reasons why women philosophers have been excluded from the history of analytic philosophy in this period. There is still time to reverse those tendencies
Significance of the New Logic
The Significance of the New Logic
W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers. Qu…
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The Significance of the New Logic
W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers. Qu…
Significance of the New Logic
Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic
Analytic philosophy in the mid-twentieth century underwent a major change of direction when a prior consensus in favour of extensionalism and descriptivism made way for approaches using direct reference, the necessity of identity, and modal logic. All three were first defended, in the analytic tradition, by one woman, Ruth Barcan Marcus. But analytic philosophers now tend to credit them to Kripke, or Kripke and Carnap. I argue that seeing Barcan …
Lost voices
This paper introduces a Special Issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on women in philosophy 1880-1970. It argues that there are social, institutional and academic reasons why women philosophers have been excluded from the history of analytic philosophy in this period. There is still time to reverse those tendencies
Susan Stebbing on Well-Foundedness
Susan Stebbing’s metaphysical method of directional analysis led her to query the assumption that reality must be well-founded and analysis must terminate in simples. If this is true, she argued, it is a contingent claim about how reality is constituted, not an analytic or logically necessary truth. I present an interpretation of Stebbing’s views about well-foundedness, linking her metaphysics to her philosophy of physics. My interpretation evinc…
Teaching women into the history of early analytic philosophy
Philosophy, Science, and History (5 works) · Analytic philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Quine (2 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Analytic element method (1 work)