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How to express Kant's notion of existence on first-order logic according to Ayer?
In Language, Truth, and Logic, Ayer writes:
[As] Kant pointed out, existence is not an attribute. For, when we ascribe an attribute to a thing, we covertly assert that it exists.
However, I ...
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view of analytic-philosophy from aesthetics
Always I see resources about view of continental-philosophy about aesthetics, is there any resource about view of analytic-philosophy about aesthetics? which philosopher of analytic-philosophy talks ...
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Logical positivism today
John Passmore in 1967 said that logical positivism
"...is dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes."
Are there any modern philosophers that advocate logical positivism the same ...
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What are some good resources for Analytically trained philosophers to get into more “continental” figures?
My question is similar to this one and this one, but with a slightly different spin.
I am interested in knowing who are some analytically trained philosophers who write on historically "continental" ...
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Introduction to critical theory for analytic philosophers
As far as I understand, there are two broad branches of critical theory: one is based on social theory, and the other on literary criticism and hermeneutics. I am more interested in the latter, of the ...
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What is the origin of the Continental vs. Analytic divide?
There's been much ado about the divisiveness between Heidegger and Husserl fans on the one side, with Frege and Russell stalwarts on the other. I'm mostly amused by accounts of name-calling between ...
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What makes analytic (social) epistemology relevant?
In a recent paper, Steve Fuller lambasts the analytic social epistemologist as having little understanding of how knowledge making actually works in the real world. The criticism is that the analytic ...
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Derrida-Searle debate - any information?
I would like to know how Derrida-Searle debate went on (Wikipedia is lacking, and Searle's response is somehow difficult to find.).
Can anyone provide me some summary and some crucial details?
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What are Philippa Foot's considerations on the trolley problem?
The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics that goes like this:
Suppose that a judge or magistrate is faced with rioters demanding
that a culprit be found for a certain crime and ...
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Wittgenstein on Math
I have been reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and my question is how does he come to realize that we can't have a perfect language.
For instance I would say math is a perfect ...
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Is there a formal presentation of Maturana's “Autopoiesis”
I have been reading through "Autopoiesis and Cognition" by Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela. One of their goals in defining autopoiesis and the supporting concepts of simple and composite ...
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What's an example of how the analysis of language is helpful in philosophy?
Wikipedia says:
Analytic philosophy" can refer to: A general philosophical tradition characterized by an emphasis on clarity and argument (often achieved via modern formal logic and analysis of ...
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Are there any responses to Penelope Maddy's “Second Philosophy”?
I am finishing up reading Penelopy Maddy's [2007] "Second Philosophy". I really enjoy her flavor of naturalism. Like Quine, she justifies parts of mathematics because of its application. Unlike Quine, ...
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Why did Jacques Derrida call his theory “deconstruction”?
Deconstruction literally should mean "destroying something" or "tearing something apart" or something like that—something that is opposite to "construction". Why he has chosen this term for his ...
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Is reductionism the primary means of logical analysis in analytic philosophy?
I was reading a philosophical article about analytic philosophy and I saw the claim:
Russell and many philosophers influenced by him asserted that complex statements can be reduced to simple ...
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Are there any philosophical works consisting entirely in conditional propositions?
Related, I suppose, to this question.
In mathematics most theorems are of the form:
If we have a [type of object] with [property 1] then it also has [property 2]
That is, they are conditional ...
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Which philosophers have done most to bridge the analytic/continental divide?
I am interested to find out work done in this direction by prominent philosophers in each tradition.
My paradigm cases would be Richard Rorty on the analytic side and Alain Badiou on the continental ...
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What are some ways to read Wittgenstein's Tractatus other than resolute/irresolute?
There are, at present, two dominant ways to read Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP). One is called the irresolute reading, the other the resolute reading.
The irresolute reading ...
