Max Black

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According to Wikipedia, Max Black was an Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War II. He made contributions to the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics and science, and the philosophy of art, also publishing studies of the work of philosophers such as Frege. His translation of Frege's published philosophical writing is a classic text.

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Knowing and the Known (1949) (1722)
Models and metaphors : studies in language and philosophy (1962) (1159)
Models and metaphors (1962) (1107)
More about metaphor (1977) (1039)
Translations from the philosophical writings of Gottlob Frege (1953) (836)
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (1963) (819)
Vagueness. An Exercise in Logical Analysis (1937) (451)
Review: Karl Menger, Tri-Operational Algebra; Ferdinand L. Brown, Remarks Concerning Tri-Operational Algebra; Carl G. Hempel, Studies in the Logic of Confirmation (1945) (280)
The language of education (1961) (256)
Unity of science (1934) (184)
On concept and object (175)
A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1964) (167)
Language and Philosophy. (1950) (167)
Philosophy in America (1965) (132)
Metaphor and Thought: More about metaphor (1993) (128)
Reasoning with Loose Concepts (1963) (112)
Art, Perception, and Reality (1972) (94)
The gap between ‘is’ and ‘should’ (1964) (85)
Why Cannot an Effect Precede its Cause (1956) (80)
How Metaphors Work: A Reply to Donald Davidson (1979) (76)
The social theories of Talcott Parsons (1962) (74)
The labyrinth of language (1969) (68)
The Social Theories of Talcott Parsons: A Critical Examination (1961) (57)
The importance of language (1962) (53)
MODELS AND ARCHETYPES (1960) (50)
Achilles and the Tortoise (1951) (47)
Saying and Disbelieving (1952) (43)
Problems of Analysis. (1955) (42)
Linguistic Relativity: The Views of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1959) (35)
Philosophical Problems of Many-Valued Logic (1966) (33)
Meaning and Intention: An Examination of Grice's Views (1973) (32)
I.—THE IDENTITY OF INDISCERNIBLES (1952) (32)
The Semantic Definition of Truth (1948) (30)
The Prevalence of Humbug (1982) (29)
Critical Thinking: An Introduction To Logic And Scientific Method (1947) (29)
Austin on Performatives (1963) (26)
The Limitations of a Behavioristic Semiotic (1947) (26)
Self-Supporting Inductive Arguments (1958) (24)
Report on Analysis Problem no. 3: "Does the Logical Truth (Ǝx) (Fx v ∼ Fx) Entail That at Least One Individual Exists?" (1953) (21)
Philosophical Analysis: A Collection of Essays (1950) (20)
Wittgenstein's Language‐games (1979) (20)
Language and Philosophy: Studies in Method (1981) (19)
Vagueness : an exercise in logical analysis (1990) (18)
XI.—Philosophical Analysis (1933) (18)
Some Questions About Emotive Meaning (1948) (16)
THE “PARADOX OF ANALYSIS” (1944) (16)
The Principle of Verifiability (1934) (16)
The prevalence of humbug, and other essays (1983) (14)
Notes on the “Paradoxes of Confirmation” (1966) (14)
Critical thinking, 2nd ed. (1952) (13)
The Nature of Mathematics : a critical survey (1933) (12)
Some Objections to Ogden and Richards' Theory of Interpretation (1942) (12)
Margins of precision;: Essays in logic and language (1970) (12)
Relations between Logical Positivism and the Cambridge School of Analysis (1939) (12)
The nature of mathematics (1934) (11)
Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays in Language, Logic, and Art (1975) (11)
Truth by Convention : A Symposium (1936) (10)
Conventionalism in Geometry and the Interpretation of Necessary Statements (1942) (10)
Review: Gottlob Frege, J. L. Austin, The Foundations of Arithmetic. A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number (1951) (10)
Is Analysis a Useful Method in Philosophy (1934) (10)
Patterns of Discovery. N. R. Hanson (1959) (9)
Education as Art and Discipline (1944) (9)
Semantics and Abstract Objects (1951) (9)
Educational, Psychological and Personality Tests of 1936 (1938) (9)
Fundamentals of Symbolic Logic (1962) (8)
The Justification of Induction (1949) (8)
Models and Methaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy. (1964) (8)
On the Church-Frege Solution of the Paradox of Analysis. (1950) (7)
Review: Harold R. Smart, Paul Arthur Schilpp, Cassirer's Theory of Mathematical Concepts (1950) (7)
Truth by Convention: A Symposium by A. J. Ayer, C. H. Whiteley, M. Black (1936) (7)
Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles (1990) (7)
Definition, Presupposition, and Assertion (1952) (7)
A New Method of Presentation of the Theory of the Syllogism (1945) (7)
Some Questions about Bayesian Decision Theory (1986) (6)
Philosophy in America : essays (1965) (6)
Attribute and Class. (1950) (6)
Dewey's Philosophy of Language (1962) (6)
Can induction be vindicated? (1959) (5)
Linguistic Method in Philosophy (1948) (5)
Why Should I Be Rational (1982) (5)
Are There Any Philosophically Interesting Questions in Technology? (1976) (5)
The Philosophy of Science of A. S. Eddington (1960) (5)
Self-Support and Circularity: A Reply to Mr. Achinstein (1962) (5)
Review: Morton G. White, On the Church-Frege Solution of the Paradox of Analysis (1948) (4)
Comments on a Recent Version of Phenomenalism (1939) (4)
Making Intelligent Choices (1985) (4)
Problems of Analysis: Philosophical Essays (1971) (4)
What is General Education (1944) (4)
The “Direction” of Time (1959) (4)
Philosophical Analysis: A Collection of Essays. (1953) (4)
THE “PARADOX OF ANALYSIS” AGAIN: A REPLY (1945) (3)
Carnap's Semantics (1949) (3)
How Can Analysis be Informative (1946) (3)
Philosophy of Logics By Susan Haack Cambridge University Press, 1978, xvi + 276 pp., £13.50 (1981) (3)
The radical ambiguity of a poem (1984) (3)
III.—Some Problems Connected with Language (1939) (3)
THE RAISON D'ÊTRE OF INDUCTIVE ARGUMENT* (1966) (2)
A Propos of ‘Facts’ (1934) (2)
Review: Alonzo Church, Introduction to Mathematical Logic (1957) (2)
Language and Reality (1958) (2)
The Road to Reason (1948) (2)
Is a Philosophy of History Possible (1978) (2)
V. Necessary Statements and Rules (1958) (2)
The Cup Metaphor in Mark xiv. 36 (1948) (2)
Review: Carl G. Hempel, A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation (1944) (2)
Language and Value: Proceedings of the Centennial Conference on the Life and Works of Alexander Bryan Johnson, September 8-9, 1967, Utica, New York ... (1970) (2)
On Speaking with the Vulgar (1949) (2)
The Objectivity of Science. (1977) (1)
Kaplan Abraham. Content analysis and the theory of signs. Philosophy of Science , vol. 10 (1943), pp. 230–247. (1943) (1)
Beardsley Elizabeth Lane. The semantical aspect of sentences. The journal of philosophy, vol. 40 (1943), pp. 393–403. (1943) (1)
Review: K. Chandrasekharan, A Further Note on Intuitionistic Set-Theory (1946) (1)
The Training of Teachers of Philosophy (1943) (1)
The “Factual” and the “Normative” (1972) (1)
Symposium: Is Analysis a Useful Method in Philosophy? (1934) (1)
Truth-Functions: A Criticism (1936) (1)
Liberal Arts in Wartime (1943) (1)
Review: Donald Williams, The Ground of Induction (1947) (1)
Review: John W. Tukey, The Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on the Problems of Mathematics (1947) (1)
IV.—CRITICAL NOTICES (1940) (1)
Professor Broad on the limit theorems of probability. (1947) (0)
Review: Alonzo Church, Brief Bibliography of Formal Logic (1953) (0)
Whitehead A. N.. Mathematics. Essays in science and philosophy, by Whitehead A. N., Philosophical Library, New York 1947, pp. 269–288. (1947) (0)
Faculty-Trustee Relations: A Panel Discussion in Three Parts (1956) (0)
Review: G. E. Moore, Russell's "Theory of Descriptions." (1944) (0)
Rynin D.. Meaning and formation rules. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 782–784. (1950) (0)
Heinemann F. H.. Vérités de raison et vérités de fait. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18,1948), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 629–632. (1949) (0)
The Nature of Mathematics, A Critical Survey.@@@Tables of the Higher Mathematical Functions. (1934) (0)
Review: Frederic Brenton Fitch, Attribute and Class (1950) (0)
Review: Donald Cary Williams, Probability, Induction, and the Provident Man (1950) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1994) (0)
Donald Williams. The ground of induction . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1947, ix + 213 pp. (1947) (0)
Feibleman James. An introduction to Peirce's philosophy interpreted as a system. With a foreword by Bertrand Russell. Harper and Brothers, New York and London 1946, xx + 503 pp. (1947) (0)
How our minds work (1946) (0)
Review: Alexander Koyre, Manifold and Category (1948) (0)
The « Prisoner’s Dilemma » and the Limits of Rationality (1978) (0)
Review: K. Britton, What is a Rule of Language? (1949) (0)
Review: Carl G. Hempel, Paul Oppenheim, A Definition of "Degree of Confirmation." (1946) (0)
Tenth Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1948) (0)
Place of Logic in the Teaching of Geometry (1939) (0)
Kaufmann Felix. Basic issues in logical positivism. Philosophic thought in France and the United States, Essays representing major trends in contemporary French and American philosophy , edited by Farber Marvin, University of Buffalo publications in philosophy, Buffalo 1950, pp. 565–588. (1950) (0)
Lenzen Victor F.. Philosophy of science in America. Philosophic thought in France and the United States, Essays representing major trends in contemporary French and American philosophy, edited by Farber Marvin, University of Buffalo publications in philosophy, Buffalo 1950, pp. 505–524. (1950) (0)
Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim. A definition of “degree of confirmation.” Philosophy of science , vol. 12 (1945), pp. 98–115. (1946) (0)
Some Questions About “Practical Reasoning”* (1978) (0)
Paradigm Cases and Evaluative Words (1973) (0)
Beth Eveht W.. Historical studies in traditional philosophy. Synthese, vol. 5 (1946–1947), pp. 248–260. (1949) (0)
Bergmann Gustav. Concerning Carnap's definition of ‘extensional’ and ‘intensional.’ Mind, n.s. vol. 57 (1948), pp. 494–495. (1950) (0)
The normative in the descriptive-comment (1956) (0)
Report on Analysis Problem no. 3: "Does the Logical Truth ([Latin Capital Letter Reversed E]x) (Fx v Fx) Entail That at Least One Individual Exists?" (1953) (0)
Reichenbach Hans. Bertrand Russell's logic. The philosophy of Bertrand Russell , edited by Schilpp Paul Arthur, Northwestern University, Evanston and Chicago 1944, pp. 21–54. (1944) (0)
Review: F. H. Heinemann, Truths of Reason and Truths of Fact (1949) (0)
Review: Abraham Kaplan, Philip Arthur Schilpp, Charles Morris, Content Analysis and the Theory of Signs: The philosophy of G.E. Moore (1943) (0)
Review: Bertrand Russell, Logical Positivism (1947) (0)
Russell Bektrand, Logical positivism. Polemic (London), no. 1 (1945), pp. 6–13. (1947) (0)
Goodman Nelson. A query on confirmation. The journal of philosophy, vol. 43 (1946), pp. 383–385. (1946) (0)
George J. Bowdery (1916-1945) (1946) (0)
A Note on Professor Edel’s Paper (1970) (0)
Review: Elizabeth Lane Beardsley, The Semantical Aspect of Sentences (1943) (0)
Kaufmann Felix. Three meanings of “truth.” The journal of philosophy, vol. 45 (1948), pp. 337–350. (1950) (0)
Review: A. N. Whitehead, Mathematics (1947) (0)
Moore G. E.. Russell's “theory of descriptions.” The philosophy of Bertrand Russell , edited by Schilpp Paul Arthur, Northwestern University, Evanston and Chicago 1944, pp. 175–225. (1944) (0)
Review: Victor F. Lenzen, Philosophy of Science in America (1950) (0)
IX.—CRITICAL NOTICE (1964) (0)
Britton K.. What is a rule of language? Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18,1948), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 779–781. (1949) (0)
Letter to the editor (1977) (0)
Heinemann F. H.. Truths of reason and truths of fact. The philosophical review , vol. 57 (1948), pp. 458–480. (1949) (0)
IV.—DISCUSSIONS: CERTAINTY AND EMPIRICAL STATEMENTS (1942) (0)
Harold R. Smart. Cassirer versus Russell. Philosophy of science , vol. 10 (1943), pp. 167–175. (1943) (0)
A Lend-Lease Program for Philosophy and Science (1945) (0)
Comments on Kolenda's Theses (1956) (0)
On the Nature of Meanings: A Philosophical Analysis. (1962) (0)
A Mysterious Null Class (1944) (0)
Verificationism Revisited: A Conversation (1982) (0)
IV.—NEW BOOKS (1943) (0)
Carl G. Hempel. A note on the paradoxes of confirmation. Mind , n. s. vol. 55 (1946), pp. 79–82. (1946) (0)
Review: R. Apery, Axiomes et Postulats (1949) (0)
Review: D. Rynin, Meaning and Formation Rules (1950) (0)
Carl G. Hempel. A purely syntactical definition of confirmation. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 8 (1943), pp. 122–143. (1944) (0)
Review: C. H. Whiteley, Hempel's Paradoxes of Confirmation (1945) (0)
Some Remarks About Rationality (1977) (0)
An Immoderate Skepticism, Some Comments on Professor Unger's Paper (1974) (0)
Philosopher's quest (1947) (0)
Review: L. Rougier, Enonces Indetermines, Indecidables, Contradictoires, vides de sens (1949) (0)
Apéry R.. Axiomes et postulats. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18,1948), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 708–710. (1949) (0)
Review: Marcel Boll, Jacques Reinhart, Logic in France in the Twentieth Century (1950) (0)
Propositions, Truth, and the Ultimate Criterion of Truth (1944) (0)
Fitch Frederic Brenton. Attribute and class. Philosophic thought in France and the United States, Essays representing major trends in contemporary French and American philosophy, edited by Farber Marvin, University of Buffalo publications in philosophy, Buffalo 1950, pp. 545–563. (1950) (0)
Review: Felix Kaufmann, Basic Issues in Logical Positivism (1950) (0)
C. H. Whiteley. Hempel's paradoxes of confirmation. Mind , n. s. vol. 54 (1945), pp. 156–158. (1945) (0)
New and Old: Twentieth Century Philosophy: Living Schools of Thought (1943) (0)
A Most Thorough and Careful Documentation: A History of American Philosophy (1947) (0)
Review: Felix Kaufmann, Rudolf Carnap's Analysis of `Truth.' (1950) (0)
Basic science reviews (1992) (0)
Review: James Feibleman, Bertrand Russell, An Introduction to Peirce's Philosophy Interpreted as a System (1947) (0)
Review: Jehoshua Bar-Hillel, Alexandre Koyre, The Revival of "the Liar" (1948) (0)
Truth-Functions: A Criticism. (1937) (0)
Rougier L.. Énoncés indéterminés, indécidables, contradictoires, vides de sens. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1 (1949) (0)
Whitehead A. N.. Indication, classes, numbers, validation., by Whitehead A. N., Philosophical Library, New York 1947, pp. 313–331. (1947) (0)
Chandrasekharan K.. A further note on intuitionistic set-theory. The mathematics student, vol. 13 (1945), pp. 49–51. (1946) (0)
Review: Felix Kaufmann, Three Meanings of "Truth." (1950) (0)
The Teaching of Mathematics. A Bibliography (1938) (0)
Book Reviews: Foundations of Inductive Logic (1957) (0)
Review: Albert Einstein, Paul Arthur Schilpp, Autobiographical Notes (1950) (0)
Review: A. N. Whitehead, Indication, Classes, Numbers, Validation (1947) (0)
Report on Analysis Problem No. 3 (1953) (0)
Some Questions About Materialism (1946) (0)
Critical Analyses of the Social Theories of Talcott Parsons: A Book Review Symposium (1962) (0)
Comments on Preceding Paper of W. V. Quine (1951) (0)
Tukey John W., conference reporter. The Princeton University bicentennial conference on the problems of mathematics. With a foreword by Solomon Lefschetz. Princeton University bicentennial conferences, series 2 conference 2. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1947, 32 pp. (1947) (0)
Letter from Max Black to Barbara McClintock (1969) (0)
Review: Gustav Bergmann, Concerning Carnap's Definition of `Extensional' and `Intensional.' (1950) (0)
Review: Olaf Helmer, Paul Oppenheim, A Syntatical Definition of Probability and of Degree of Confirmation (1946) (0)
Tummers J. H.. Les principes, usités dans les sciences. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18,1948) , North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 694–697. (1949) (0)
Some Linguistic Aspects of Mathematical Teaching (1937) (0)
Review: Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars, Readings in Philosophical Analysis (1949) (0)
Book reviews (1976) (0)
Review: Evert W. Beth, Historical Studies in Traditional Philosophy (1949) (0)
Nagel Ernest. Russell's philosophy of science. The philosophy of Bertrand Russell, edited by Schilpp Paul Arthur, Northwestern University, Evanston and Chicago 1944, pp. 317–349. (1944) (0)
Review: Ernest Nagel, Russell's Philosophy of Science (1944) (0)
Review: Nelson Goodman, A Query on Confirmation (1946) (0)
Problem of analysis : philosophical essays / Max Black (1954) (0)
Alexits G. and Fenyö E.. Les fondements des mathématiques et la philosophie du matérialisme dialectique. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18,1948), North-Holland Publish (1949) (0)
Review: Harold R. Smart, Cassirer versus Russell (1943) (0)
Hinshaw Virgil G. Jr., The pragmatist theory of truth. Philosophy of science , vol. 11 (1944), pp. 82–92. (1944) (0)
Review: Carl G. Hempel, A Note on the Paradoxes of Confirmation (1946) (0)
The Relevance of Mathematical Philosophy to the Teaching of Mathematics (1938) (0)
Book Review:Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Arthur W. Burks (1963) (0)
Also Sprach Van Doren: Liberal Education (1944) (0)
Review: Hans Reichenbach, Bertrand Russell's Logic (1944) (0)

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