Reply to an Analytic Philosopher

DOUGLAS WALTON After Analytic Philosophy , What ' s Next ? : An Analytic Philosopher ' s Perspective

Philosophy, at the moment, seems to be in a transition period in which analytic philosophy, of the sort that has been predominant, is giving way to something new. But what will come next? Deconstructive and hermeneutic philosophies seem to indicate the right directions to fit the current relativistic climate of thought, but have failed to yield enough of a useful structure or method to carry ph...

Turning Quantitative: An Analytic Scale to Do Critical Discourse Analysis

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) could be seen as a theory in qualitative more than in qualitative stud- ies. This might have led to difficulty in doing CDA. Accordingly, this study attempted to develop a quan- titative profile in the form of an analytic rubric. For this purpose, Fairclough’s model of CDA was select- ed as the research framework. The techniques used for structuring analy...

Is "ethicist" anything to call a philosopher?

Thomas Young, Natural Philosopher

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

An analytic approach to stability

The stability method is very useful for obtaining exact solutions of many extremal graph problems. Its key step is to establish the stability property which, roughly speaking, states that any two almost optimal graphs of the same order n can be made isomorphic by changing o(n2) edges. Here we show how the recently developed theory of graph limits can be used to give an analytic approach to stab...