SCIENCE AND THE HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

I think that at its most general and comprehensive level, this chapter means to be a contribution to the attempt to define analytic philosophy; to provide, if you will, the essence of this particular historically and culturally located variety of philosophy. Providing such a definition or essence is...

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Published inFreedom, Nature, and World p. 135
Main Author PETER LOPTSON
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Ottawa Press 31.01.2008
Subjects
American philosophy
Analytic philosophy
Ancient philosophy
Aristotelianism
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Common sense
Continental philosophy
Empiricism
Epistemology
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of philosophy
History of science
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Modern philosophy
Modern science
Modernist art
Ordinary language philosophy
Philosophy
Scientific revolution
Western philosophy
Wisdom
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Summary:I think that at its most general and comprehensive level, this chapter means to be a contribution to the attempt to define analytic philosophy; to provide, if you will, the essence of this particular historically and culturally located variety of philosophy. Providing such a definition or essence is, I believe, extraordinarily difficult. By the canons of some of the varieties of analytic philosophy, it is probably not possible to do it. It may or may not be possible to do it. And even if possible, it may not be something worth doing. At any rate, that is what I am