Analytic philosophy, 1925–69: emergence, management and nature

Analytic Philosophy and Cognitive Norms

Is there any point in defending today “analytic” philosophy against “continental” philosophy? Many people are doubful about this, just because of the very use of quotation marks surrounding these names in the previous sentence. For what is “analytic philosophy”? At the time of Frege, Russell and Moore, or at the time of the positivists, and even in the late sixties, it may have been possible to...

Emergence and reduction in context: Philosophy of science and/or analytic metaphysics

Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Science, and Global Philosophy

Although there is no consensus on what distinguishes analytic from Continental philosophy, I focus in this paper on one source of disagreement that seems to run fairly deep in dividing these traditions in recent times, namely, disagreement about the relation of natural science to philosophy. I consider some of the exchanges about science that have taken place between analytic and Continental ph...

Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy

[1] Recent philosophy of mind and epistemology has seen an important and influential trend towards accounting for at least some features of experiences in contentinvolving terms. It is a contested point whether ascribing content to experiences can account for all the intrinsic properties of experiences, but on many theories of experiences there are close links between the ascription of content ...

The Birth of Analytic Philosophy *

Analytic philosophy was, at its birth, an attempt to escape from an earlier tradition, that of Kant, and the first battleground was mathematics. Kant had claimed that mathematics is grounded neither in experience nor in logic but in the spatio-temporal structure which we ourselves impose on experience. First Frege tried to refute Kant’s account in the case of arithmetic by showing that it could...