Introduction

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Michael Beaney
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Philosophical Questions

One claim often made about analytic philosophy is that it places great emphasis on clarity of thinking, precision of expression, and rigour of argumentation. But other intellectual virtues that might be considered are creativity, fruitfulness, and systematicity. The Introduction aims to give some sense of the conceptual creativity of analytic philosophy and the bigger picture in which its fruitfulness and systematic ambitions can be appreciated. Analytic philosophy is called ‘analytic’ because of the emphasis placed on analysis. But this just raises the question of what is meant by ‘analysis’, and what forms of analysis are employed in analytic philosophy. This is best answered by considering a range of philosophical questions.

5. How can we think more clearly?

2017 ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Michael Beaney
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Logical Fallacies

Analytic philosophy places great emphasis on clarity. But what does ‘clarity’ mean and how can we think more clearly? How does clarity connect with other virtues of analytic philosophy? ‘How can we think more clearly?’ introduces L. Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) who published the first textbook of analytic philosophy in 1930, doing more than anyone to promote the development of analytic philosophy in Britain. Stebbing’s work outlines different types of thinking—purposive, logical, and critical—discussing a range of ways we can be misled, from logical fallacies and potted thinking to analogies and ambiguity. In drawing our attention to them, Stebbing shows how we can think more clearly by avoiding them.

scholarly journals If analytic philosophy of religion is sick, can it be cured?

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 558-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOTI MIZRAHI
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Prior Beliefs ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Potential Remedy

AbstractIn this article, I argue that, if ‘the overrepresentation of Christian theists in analytic philosophy of religion is unhealthy for the field, since they would be too much influenced by prior beliefs when evaluating religious arguments’ (De Cruz & De Smedt (2016), 119), then a first step towards a potential remedy is this: analytic philosophers of religion need to restructure their analytical tasks. For one way to mitigate the effects of confirmation bias, which may be influencing how analytic philosophers of religion evaluate arguments in Analytical Philosophy of Religion (APR), is to consider other points of view. Applied to APR, this means considering religious beliefs, questions, and arguments couched in non-Christian terms. In this article, I focus on Islam in particular. My aim is to show that Islam is a fertile ground of philosophical questions and arguments for analytic philosophers of religion to engage with. Engaging with questions and arguments couched in non-Christian terms would help make work in APR more diverse and inclusive of religions other than Christianity, which in turn would also be a first step towards attracting non-Christians to APR.

Rorty’s Rejection of Philosophy

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Brian Leiter
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Education ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
The Real ◽  
Myth Of The Given ◽  
The Given ◽  
Philosophical Questions

Abstract I argue that the real puzzle about Richard Rorty’s intellectual development is not why he gave up on ‘analytic’ philosophy-he had never been much committed to that research agenda, even before it became moribund-but why, beginning with Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (PMN), he gave up on the central concerns of philosophy going back to antiquity. In addition to Rorty’s published works, I draw on biographical information about Rorty’s undergraduate and graduate education to support this assessment, and contrast his rejection of philosophy with Nietzsche’s. Many contemporary philosophers influenced by Quine’s attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction and Sellars’ attack on ‘the Myth of the Given’ (the two argumentative linchpins of PMN) did not abandon philosophical questions about truth, knowledge, and mind, they just concluded those questions needed to be naturalized, to be answered in conjunction with the empirical sciences. Why didn’t Rorty go this route? The paper concludes with some interesting anecdotes about Rorty that invite speculative explanations.

Methodology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Soames
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Logical Syntax ◽  
Logical Atomism ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Philosophical Questions

This chapter discusses the methodology that guided logico-linguistic analysis from Gottlob Frege’s 1879 Begriffsschrift to Rudolf Carnap’s 1934 The Logical Syntax of Language. In the first four decades of this period, culminating with Bertrand Russell’s 1918–19 lectures on The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, analysis was viewed as an increasingly powerful tool employed in the service of solving traditional philosophical problems. The logicist reduction of arithmetic to what was taken to be logic was the driving force, providing the exemplar of philosophical analysis and the model for extending it beyond the philosophy of mathematics. The methodology is indicated by the role played by A2 in answering Frege’s guiding philosophical questions Q1 and Q2.

scholarly journals Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Beaney
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Gottlob Frege ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Philosophical Questions

Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction introduces some of the key ideas of the founders of analytic philosophy—Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Susan Stebbing around the turn of the 20th century—by exploring certain fundamental philosophical questions and showing how those ideas can be used in offering answers. Considering the work of Susan Stebbing, it also explores the application of analytic philosophy to critical thinking, and emphasizes the conceptual creativity that lies at the heart of fruitful analysis. Throughout, this VSI illustrates why clarity of thinking, precision of expression, and rigour of argumentation are rightly seen as virtues of analytic philosophy.

Integrated development strategy of the catchment area of the Tisza river

2014 ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Pompei Cocean ◽  
Ana-Maria Pop ◽  
Lelia Papp
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Transnational Cooperation ◽  
Tisza River

The main challenge for mankind has always been to eliminate the borders of its living space, as well as to explore and discover its new faces. Contemporary literature strengthens this postulate. It is the preference of the experts of various fields in spatial analysis is to consider space to be repairable, changeable and organisable. In accordance with this axiom, the five affected countries in the catchment area of the Tisza river (Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Serbia) worked out an integrated, mutual standpoint to support the problems of the catchment area and to exploit its opportunities with the aim to support transnational cooperation. They laid great emphasis on the existing resources which could become the driving force behind regional development directions. This study contains the summarised outcomes of the TICAD project (SEE/A 638/4.2./X) which was drawn up as a result of cooperation between renowned institutions of the five affected countries within the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme (lead partner: VÁTI, Hungary).

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