Reading about the glorious past…

I am reading S. Soames’s Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century. Not particularly deep philosophical book (it is written, on most parts, for undergraduates) . However, since I have mostly read just a seemingly random set of classics from here and there according to the need at hand, as most of us do, I do appreciate the comprehensive picture of the development of analytic philosophy presented here.

It pains me to admit that, although I have lately been working on both empiricist criterion of meaning (the problem of analyticity to be precise) and the problem of counterfactuals, I paid no attention to the connection between the two until I read about it from Soames’s book…