analytical philosophy


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analytical philosophy

n
(Philosophy) a school of philosophy which flourished in the first half of the 20th century and which sought to resolve philosophical problems by analysing the language in which they are expressed, esp in terms of formal logic as in Russell's theory of descriptions. Compare linguistic philosophy
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Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
Even in 'analytical philosophy' there is a prevailing view that we have absorbed the lessons and skills he taught us and now we can move on.
In Origins of Analytical Philosophy (1993), Dummett compares and contrasts the work of Frege and Husserl, as representatives of the analytical and phenomenological schools respectively, in the course of arguing that the linguistic turn is the decisive moment in the birth of the analytical tradition and what distinguishes that tradition from other movements.
Preston (philosophy, Malone College, US) traces the rise and fall of analytical philosophy and a distinct school or movement.
Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Focusing on metaphysical issues that have until that time rose independently of each other, contributors discuss the possibility and scope of philosophical knowledge under a variety of aspects, including a priori knowledge and the sole of intuition, transcendental arguments, analytical philosophy and its methods, and the relations between phenomenology and analytic philosophy.
Paulos, a mathematician and author, examines aspects of his life using math and other areas like analytical philosophy, emphasizing the concept of not jumping to conclusions until compelling evidence is provided and considering how mathematical patterns express themselves in life stories.
At one time or another, Swinburne has written on almost every central philosophical and theological issue; but today he is probably best known as one of the most influential proponents and practitioners of the analytical philosophy of religion.
Oderberg moreover exemplifies the unfortunately rare combination in analytical philosophy of rigorous and historically informed argumentation.
Philosophy scholars in Poland, elsewhere in Europe, and the US examine the influence of German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano (1838-1917) on Polish Analytical Philosophy, better known as the Lvov-Warsaw School.
Some major themes include natural theology, analytical philosophy of religion, preventing religious radicalization, and reforming religious education.
' He believes that Nietzsche not only 'encountered' but also 'was influenced by some of the principal ideas of what was to become logical positivism: the philosophy of the Vienna Circle and analytical philosophy' (92).
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