Introduction 1(40) Richard M. Rorty PART I Classic Statements of the Thesis That Philosophical Questions are Questions of Language 41(84) The Future of Philosophy 43(11) Moritz Schlick On the Character of Philosophical Problems 54(9) Rudolf Carnap Logical Positivism, Language, and the Reconstruction of Metaphysics (in part) 63(9) Gustav Bergmann Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology 72(13) Rudolf Carnap Systematically Misleading Expressions 85(16) Gilbert Ryle Philosophical Perplexity 101(10) John Wisdom Moore and Ordinary Language 111(14) Norman Malcolm PART II Metaphilosophical Problems of Ideal-Language Philosophy 125(48) Language Analysis and Metaphysical Inquiry 127(9) Irving Copi Two Criteria for an Ideal Language 132(3) Gustav Bergmann Reply to Bergmann 135(1) Irving Copi Russell's Philosophy of Language (in part) 136(11) Max Black Linguistic Approaches to Philosophical Problems 147(13) Alice Ambrose Comments on the ``Proposal Theory'' of Philosophy 156(4) Roderick Chisholm Language and Ontology 160(8) James W. Cornman Semantic Ascent (from Word and Object) 168(5) Willard v. O. Quine PART III Metaphilosophical Problems of Ordinary-Language Philosophy 173(96) Philosophers and Ordinary Language 175(8) Roderick Chisholm Arguments to Meaninglessness: Excluded Opposites and Paradigm Cases (from Philosophical Reasoning) 183(10) John Passmore Why Ordinary Language Needs Reforming 193(13) Grover Maxwell Herbert Feigl When Is Ordinary Language Reformed? 201(5) Manley Thompson Philosophical Discoveries 206(18) Richard Hare Do We Discover Our Uses of Words? 218(6) Paul Henle Ascriptivism 224(3) Peter Geach Uses of Language and Philosophical Problems 227(5) James W. Cornman J. L. Austin 232(7) J. O. Urmson J. L. Austin 239(11) Stuart Hampshire J. L. Austin 248(2) J. O. Urmson G. Warnock Austin at Criticism 250(11) Stanley Cavell The Interpretation of Language; Words and Concepts 261(8) Stuart Hampshire PART IV Recapitulations, Reconsiderations, and Future Prospects 269(106) Philosophy and the Analysis of Language 271(13) Dudley Shapere Are All Philosophical Questions Questions of Language? 284(10) Stuart Hampshire The History of Analysis 294(18) J. O. Urmson Discussion of Urmson's ``The History of Analysis'' (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium) 302(10) Analysis, Science, and Metaphysics 312(19) P. F. Strawson Discussion of Strawson's ``Analysis, Science and Metaphysics'' (by the participants in the 1961 Royaumont Colloquium) 321(10) Language and Reality 331(9) Max Black The Philosophical Relevance of Linguistic Theory 340(16) Jerrold J. Katz A Pre-Requisite for Rational Philosophical Discussion 356(19) Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Two Retrospective Essays Richard M. Rorty Ten Years After 361(10) Twenty-five Years After 371(4) Bibliography 375