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Analytic philosophers saw the need for clarification in the existing ways that philosophy was done, proponents of this process included the works of Gottlob Frege, G.E. Moore, and later Bertrand Russell... #philosophy #analyticphilosophy #BertrandRussell #gottlob_frege #georgemoore #logicalpositivism #ordinarylanguagephilosophy #anwhitehead #historyofphilosophy
https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/rise-of-20th-century-philosophy-analysis/

Logical positivism continues the positivist emphasis and continues the employment of objective empirical data of a scientific sort and seeking to formulate empirical generalisations with explanatory power... #logicalpositivism #ViennaCircle #BertrandRussell #ludwigwittgenstein #historyofphilosophy #analyticphilosophy https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/logical-positivism/

Something about the way the consequentializing literature (and as a result the normative ethics literature more generally) defines what makes a moral theory consequentialist always bothered me. It always felt like the definition was trying to give precision beyond what makes sense for a family of views. But of course "that's too precise of a definition" is not an objection that gets taken very seriously by analytic philosophers.

I always tried to vaguely gesture at my worry in conversation by saying things like "consequentialism isn't a theory or set of theories, its a tradition."
I don't think that's wrong, but I can understand why is always left my interlocutors unsatisfied.

I think finally reading some Elisabeth Camp has helped it click for me - I think consequentialism is a Campian *perspective* (something like a cluster of dispositions and patterns of salience in deliberation), and the consequentialist tradition is the set of people who have roughly overlapping Campian perspectives about how to approach moral theory.

I think this is also equally true of deontology and virtue theory.

On this proposal, we shouldn't think about dividing moral theories in terms of logical structure or even of how they answer some set of paradigmatic moral dilemmas (though there will be non-coincidental connections), but in terms of which things are taken to be salient and how to approach moral theory. While certain approaches will tend to lead to certain answers to these questions about structure and solutions to moral dilemmas, they don't entail them.

#philosophy #ethics #analyticphilosophy

From Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-1960:

The big claims were about the imminence of a final dissolution: ancient knots would be cut, the old metaphysical doctrines hunted to extinction. Once the old detritus was cleared, then the revelation, ‘of a whole world of infinite subtlety and diversity with its own fine and complex structure, a world which had always lain about us to be observed as soon as we ceased straining our eyes towards imaginary grandeurs and simplicities’*. That world would reveal itself once we ceased straining our eyes and tried instead to listen, not least to ourselves.

Remind you of anyone? Now it’s been a long while since I was immersed in Rorty but I don’t recall this ever being part of his intellectual narrative, whereas the ethos of his ironism I now suspect resembles post-war Oxford philosophy much more than, as often alleged, postmodernism. To what extent was this an intellectual juncture reached through multiple pathways or a common ethos which coalesced?

*From Peter Strawon’s post-linguistic thaw

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/07/07/the-unacknowledged-debt-of-richard-rorty-to-the-ethos-of-post-war-oxford-philosophy/

#analyticPhilosophy #irony #language #linguisticTurn #richardRorty

#Introduction:
My name is Robbie Norlyn! I’m a published author who primarily writes science fiction and fantasy for sale to the public. Anything else I have written, about a wide array of topics, is academic, private, or public domain.
I have had a wide variety of occupations over the years. I’m an #artist, #engineer, #scientist, and #technologist by way of experience and training.
My #AlmaMater is the #UniversityofWashington. Where I completed a #BA in #Philosophy. More specifically the school of #AnalyticPhilosophy with a strong focus on #science. However, I have a vast knowledge of #ethics and #theology due to my environment as a youth.
Why #Babka?
I’m #Jewish by descent (both sides, #Ashkenazi & #Sephardic) and am becoming more spiritual as I get older. I was raised in a #Secular/#CryptoJew environment. I grew up with Jewish memes & traditions without understanding any of their importance. Dreidels, Fiddler on the Roof, Passover, and Shel Silverstein are burned into my memories.

Putting aside quibbles about whether #PhilipKitcher's critique of #analyticPhilosophy is novel, I found #TimothyWilliamson's critique to be the kind of #romanticism, #anecdote, and unsupported speculation that's dissatisfying and deficient to empirically-oriented #philosophers like #Kitcher (see my #marginalia).

If I were #Kitcher, #Williamson's critique may not provoke a single qualm about my latest #book; it may only reinforce my concern about contemporary analytic #philosophy/#philosophers.

Page 6 of Timothy Williamson's accepted critique (2024) of Philip Kitcher's 'What’s the Use of Philosophy?' (2023) with marginalia from Nick Byrd.

The main points of the marginalia are that Williamson relies two weak reasons to thin analytic philosophy is useful.

First, analytic philosophy is intrinsically valuable because all inquiry is.

Second, analytic philosophy is valuable because there are a handful of examples of in the entire history of analytic philosophy of an analytic philosophers' ideas becoming valuable later on (even if posthumously).

Overall, there seems to be no compelling argument or evidence that analytic philosophy or analytic philosophers are generally useful. Some of the best examples of the alleged utility involve people using scientific methods to make ideas from analytic philosophy *become* useful — a sign that the ideas were not useful on their own.

Given the lack of citations of evidence for its empirical claims and lack of argument the critique seems to fall short of basic academic standards.

#TimothyWilliamson posted an accepted critique of fellow #philosopher #PhilipKitcher's book 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙮? (#Oxford #University Press)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BTPlCPQ5FmAGCARgbT0yC6MVU_iqirbx/view

"According to ...Kitcher,... much of contemporary #analyticPhilosophy ...offers ... nothing useful. [...] He wants #philosophy to change [...] But most of his recommendations would make philosophy worse: more anxious to imitate the neighbours and impress the general public...."

#metaphilosophy #science #higherEd #academia

Au sujet de la publication de Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. (1983), du début des science wars, et de la réception de la philo féministe par le mainstream de la profession.

Cet entretien avec Harding est vraiment une mine d'or ! ➡️ https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/qlvzx3b

#philosophie #épistémologie #féminisme #philosophy #feminism #harding #hintikka #analyticphilosophy #sciencewars #oralhistory

We had decided to put together this collection of feminist epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, and philosophy of science papers, and I think I mentioned—did I mention she was married to Jaakko Hintikka, who was a very famous, powerful philosopher, analytic philosopher and logician? He was from Finland.

And he held two very powerful positions. He was chairman of the board of the journal Synthese, and he was the editor-in-chief of the same publisher book series called Synthese Library. So, he had promised Merrill and me a special issue of Synthese. And when the board
heard the title, Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives and so forth, they ran amok. Three of them threatened to quit if that was published, and one of them told Jaakko, “I suppose they’re going to have on the cover a photograph of Betty Friedan waving her bra.” It was a crisis.

And so, he gave us—he was very annoyed. He was very feminist. He gave us a volume in the Synthese Library series, and that’s what this is. It’s Volume 83 in the series.

My article, “Gettier Unscathed for Now,” has been #published in Logos & Episteme. I demonstrate that Mizrahi’s anti #Gettier argument essentially proves the veracity of Gettier cases.

https://doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme202213325

#philosophy #epistemology #analyticphilosophy #peerreview #knowledge #justifiedtruebelief #semantic #kripke

Matthew's Basilisk*: Someday when Matt becomes all powerful, I will torment & torture those that didn't work towards this outcome. By the power of #AnalyticPhilosophy Class 101 #logic, you now feel compelled to make me into an all powerful ruler of the world.

*see Roko's basilisk

But our confidence rests not on objectivity but rather on the convictional power of the Holy Spirit.

J. K. A. Smith

#CertaintyOfFaith #上推讀書 #AnalyticPhilosophy #Swinburne

This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism

Volume 18, No. 2, 2022 Special Issue Interactions between analytic and Islamic philosophy/theology - European Journal of Analytical Philosophy

#analyticphilosophy #IslamicPhilosophy #islamictheology

https://eujap.uniri.hr/volume-18-no-2-2022/?s=09

Right, #Philosophy gang: thinking about my Masters dissertation subject. I want to do something on Philosophy of Mind and the hard question of consciousness/Mary’s Room but looking at what more Continental-leaning philosophers/approaches can add to the debate. Does anyone have any recommendations along these lines? Interested particularly in Hegel and Hegelian approaches but open to all sorts…#philosophy #philosophyofmind #AnalyticPhilosophy #continentalphilosophy #Hegel

#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion

Lost in language

#analyticphilosophy #language #thought

https://twitter.com/IAI_TV/status/1600497878706929671?t=uzu6nubBC2_cTZkiOxZ9vw&s=09

The Analytic School of philosophy has some of its roots in the Neo-Positivist movement that was centered around the Vienna School and the Berlin School. After at least one assassination and other serious persecutions, the Neo-Positivists fled from the spreading influence of Nazi Germany, and some set down roots in English universities. The Analytic philosophers were fiercely critical of British idealism, and they believed that knowledge must be based on evidence.

#AnalyticPhilosophy #Philosophy

‘Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, “Some gardener must tend this plot”. The other disagrees, . . .’

#antonyflew #theology #atheism #analyticphilosophy

#NoamChomsky (born December 7, 1928) an #American #Linguist, #Philosopher, #CognitiveScientist, #HistoricalEssayist, #SocialCritic, and #PoliticalActivist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", #Chomsky also a major figure in #AnalyticPhilosophy & one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a #LaureateProfessor of #Linguistics at the #UniversityofArizona & an Institute #ProfessorEmeritus at the #MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology (MIT).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

Noam Chomsky standing in front of a bookshelf

By way of #introduction I might mention that I am a #historian of @philosophy working on, among other things, the #history of #AnalyticPhilosophy and its place within the broader context of twentieth century #philosophy especially in relation to the various traditions under the heading of 'Continental' Philosophy (e.g. #Phenomenology or #CriticalTheory). I am also interested in #aesthetics and @intellectualhistory

I enjoy musical improvisation and making noise.

I do not enjoy word-limits.

#AnalyticPhilosophy

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