Introduction: The Analytic Philosophy of Politics

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...

Introduction: The Philosophy of Vectors

Introduction: The Philosophy of Information

Luciano Floridi’s 1999 monograph, Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction, provided the impetus for the theme of this issue, more for what it did not say about librarianship and information studies (LIS) than otherwise. Following the pioneering works of Wilson, Nitecki, Buckland, and Capurro (plus many of the authors of this issue), researchers in LIS have increasingly turned to the efficacy ...

Introduction: The Philosophy of Historiography

This book studies our knowledge of history, its nature, historical development, epistemic limits, and scope. In ordinary language “history” is ambiguous. It may mean past events or the study of past events (Dray, 1993, p. 1). In its original Greek historie is etymologically related to the verb “to see” and consequently to inquiry and knowledge. In other languages, “history” means a story (Le Go...

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 ...