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What are some journals where the papers employ technical logic and math notation?
Many philosophers like to use formal logic in their work, though many do not. You might do better to follow some particular philosophers whose work you are interested in.
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How can I optimize the attributes of God?
The framing of the question (as a question for an SE) comes across as subjectivistic enough that I don't see how we're supposed to provide much in the way of a "conclusive," objective answer,...
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How can I optimize the attributes of God?
I think you face two unrelated problems. The first is that you must optimise against some overall value or constraint, so until you define that you will have no way to judge whether one combination of ...
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Is Analytic Philosophy really just Language Philosophy
Bumble's answer, already selected as the answer, outlines what Dummett knew, especially being an expert in the works of Frege, the widely acknowledged father of the analytical tradition, and a key ...
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Is Analytic Philosophy really just Language Philosophy
That quote is from Michael Dummett's book, Origins of Analytical Philosophy. A short answer is that according to Dummett, we cannot have a philosophy of anything until we have a clear theory of ...
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What does it mean to say, "Philosophy really started in 1884"?
I presume analytic philosophy is implied and Frege's 1884 book The Foundations of Arithmetic (Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik) is mentioned in more of a rhetorical manner, as a synecdoche of Frege's ...
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What does it mean to say, "Philosophy really started in 1884"?
The dominant movement in philosophy is the Analytic movement, which seeks to focus on deriving everything one can from logic and mathematics, while minimizing theorizing and postulated entities. ...
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