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Analytic philosophy is a broad movement or tradition within philosophy focused on analysis, which has been dominant within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy since the latter half of the 20th century.[1][2][3] The proliferation of analysis in philosophy began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia.
Analytic philosophy is often contrasted with
Analytic philosophy is characterized by clarity of prose and rigor in arguments, making use of
Central figures in its historical development are
Characterizing analytic philosophy
Although contemporary philosophers who self-identify as "analytic" have widely divergent interests, assumptions, and methods—and have often rejected the fundamental premises that defined analytic philosophy before 1960—analytic philosophy today is usually considered to be determined by a particular style,[6] characterized by mathematical precision and thoroughness about a specific topic, and resistance to "imprecise or cavalier discussions of broad topics".[12]
Many philosophers and historians have attempted to define or describe analytic philosophy. Those definitions often include an emphasis on conceptual analysis:
Scott Soames agrees that clarity is important: analytic philosophy, he says, has "an implicit commitment—albeit faltering and imperfect—to the ideals of clarity, rigor and argumentation" and it "aims at truth and knowledge, as opposed to moral or spiritual improvement [...] the goal in analytic philosophy is to discover what is true, not to provide a useful recipe for living one's life". Soames also states that analytic philosophy is characterized by "a more piecemeal approach. There is, I think, a widespread presumption within the tradition that it is often possible to make philosophical progress by intensively investigating a small, circumscribed range of philosophical issues while holding broader, systematic questions in abeyance".[15]
The tradition has been critiqued for excessive formalism, ahistoricism, and aloofness towards alternative disciplines and outsiders.[16][17][18]
History of analytic philosophy
The history of analytic philosophy (taken in the narrower sense of "
Brentano
Franz Brentano in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874) through the influence of Edmund Husserl and Alexius Meinong gave to analytic philosophy the "problem of intentionality" or of aboutness. Meinong is known for his unique ontology of real nonexistent objects.
Frege
Russell, during his early career, along with his collaborator Alfred North Whitehead, was much influenced by Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), who is understood as the father of analytic philosophy. Frege was a mathematics professor who proved influential as a philosopher of mathematics in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Frege had advocated logicism, the project of reducing arithmetic to pure logic.
Logic
As a result of his logicist project, Frege developed
Number
Edmund Husserl's 1891 book Philosophie der Arithmetik argued that the concept of the
Language
Frege also proved influential in the philosophy of language and analytic philosophy's interest in meaning. Michael Dummett traces the linguistic turn to Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic. Frege's paper On Sense and Reference (1892) is seminal and provides a mediated reference theory. His paper Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918) reflects both his anti-idealism or anti-psychologism and his interest in language. In it he argues for a platonist account of propositions or thoughts.
Russell
Paradox
Russell famously discovered the paradox which undermined Frege's logicist project. However, like Frege, Russell argued that mathematics is reducible to logical fundamentals in The Principles of Mathematics (1903). He also argued for Meinongianism.
On Denoting
Russell sought to resolve various philosophical problems by applying Frege's new logical apparatus, most famously in his theory of definite descriptions in "On Denoting" (1905).[23] Russell here argues against Meinongianism. He argues all names (aside from demonstratives like "this" or "that") are disguised definite descriptions, using this to solve ascriptions of nonexistence. This position came to be called descriptivism.
Principia Mathematica
Later, his book written with Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), the seminal text of the logicist project, encouraged many philosophers to renew their interest in the development of symbolic logic. Additionally, Russell adopted Frege's predicate logic as his primary philosophical method, a method Russell thought could expose the underlying structure of philosophical problems. For example, the English word "is" has three distinct meanings which predicate logic can express as follows:
- For the sentence 'the cat is asleep', the is of predication means that "x is P" (denoted as P(x)).
- For the sentence 'there is a cat', the is of existence means that "there is an x" (∃x).
- For the sentence 'three is half of six', the is of identity means that "x is the same as y" (x=y).
Ideal language
From about 1910 to 1930, analytic philosophers like Frege, Russell and
Logical atomism
Russell's criticized the Hegelian view of the
Wittgenstein developed a comprehensive system of logical atomism with a picture theory of meaning in his
Logical positivism
During the late 1920s to 1940s, a group of philosophers of the Vienna Circle and the Berlin Circle developed Russell and Wittgenstein's formalism into a doctrine known as "logical positivism" (or logical empiricism). Logical positivism used formal logical methods to develop an empiricist account of knowledge.[25] Philosophers such as Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach, along with other members of the Vienna Circle, claimed that the truths of logic and mathematics were tautologies, and those of science were verifiable empirical claims. These two constituted the entire universe of meaningful judgments; anything else was nonsense. The claims of ethics, aesthetics, and theology were consequently reduced to pseudo-statements, neither empirically true nor false and therefore meaningless. A. J. Ayer's work Language Truth and Logic introduced the English speaking world to logical positivism.
Kurt Goedel, himself a platonist, but associated with the Vienna Circle, produced his incompleteness theorems showing Principia Mathematica also failed to reduce arithmetic to logic. This ultimately led to Zermelo Fraenkel Set Theory.
With the coming to power of Adolf Hitler and Nazism in 1933, many members of the Vienna and Berlin Circles fled to Britain and the US, which helped to reinforce the dominance of logical positivism and analytic philosophy in anglophone countries.
Logical positivists typically considered philosophy as having a
Ordinary language
After
Ordinary-language philosophers often sought to dissolve philosophical problems by showing them to be the result of ordinary misunderstanding language. Austin tried to emphasize the ability of words to do things (e. g. "I promise") and not just say things. Ryle tried to dispose of "Descartes' myth" via recognizing "category errors".
Contemporary analytic philosophy
During the 1950s, logical positivism was challenged influentially by Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations, Quine in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", and Sellars in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. After 1960, anglophone philosophy began to incorporate a wider range of interests, opinions, and methods.[12] Still, many philosophers in Britain and America still consider themselves "analytic philosophers".[27][6] They have done so largely by expanding the notion of "analytic philosophy" from the specific programs that dominated anglophone philosophy before 1960 to a much more general notion of an "analytic" style.[12]
A few of the most important and active topics and subtopics of analytic philosophy are summarized by the following sections
Metaphysics
One striking difference with respect to early analytic philosophy was the revival of metaphysical theorizing during the second half of the 20th century. Philosophers such as
Among the developments that resulted in the revival of metaphysical theorizing were
Important also for the revival of metaphysics was the further development of modal logic, especially the work of Saul Kripke and his Naming and Necessity. Kripke was widely regarded as reviving theories of essence and identity as respectable topics of philosophical discussion.[36] He argued influentially that flaws in common theories of proper names are indicative of larger misunderstandings of the metaphysics of necessity and possibility.
David Lewis argued for modal realism and counterpart theory.
Metaphysics remains a fertile topic of research, having recovered from the attacks of the
Science has also had an increasingly significant role in metaphysics. The theory of special relativity has had a profound effect on the philosophy of time, and quantum physics is routinely discussed in the free will debate.[38] The weight given to scientific evidence is largely due to widespread commitments among philosophers to scientific realism and naturalism.
Many valued logics have been popular since Polish logician Jan Lukasiewicz. Recent approaches have led to logical pluralism and dialetheism, advocated by the likes of JC Beall and Graham Priest.
Epistemology
Owing largely to
Ethics
Due to the commitments to empiricism and symbolic logic in the early analytic period, early analytic philosophers often thought that inquiry in the ethical domain could not be made rigorous enough to merit any attention.[41] It was only with the emergence of ordinary language philosophers that ethics started to become an acceptable area of inquiry for analytic philosophers.[41] Philosophers working with the analytic tradition have gradually come to distinguish three major types of moral philosophy.
- Meta-ethics which investigates moral terms and concepts;[42]
- Normative ethics which examines and produces normative ethical judgments;
- Applied ethics, which investigates how existing normative principles should be applied to difficult or borderline cases, often cases created by new technology or new scientific knowledge.
Meta-ethics
As well as Hume's famous is/ought distinction, twentieth-century meta-ethics has two original strains.
Moore and Non-naturalism
The first is G.E. Moore's investigation into the nature of ethical terms (e.g., good) in his Principia Ethica (1903), which advances ethical non naturalism and is known for identifying the naturalistic fallacy, a major topic of investigation for analytical philosophers.
Logical positivism and emotivism
The second is in logical positivism and its attitude that unverifiable statements are meaningless, best exemplified in English by
The
While analytic philosophers generally accepted non-cognitivism, emotivism had many deficiencies. It evolved into more sophisticated non-cognitivist theories such as the
Critics
These theories were not without their critics.
Normative ethics
The first half of the 20th century was marked by skepticism toward and neglect of normative ethics. Related subjects, such as social and political philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of history, became only marginal topics of English-language philosophy during this period. However today, contemporary normative ethics is dominated by three schools: consequentialism, virtue ethics, and deontology.
Utilitarianism
During the early 20th century, utilitarianism was the only non-skeptical type of ethics to remain popular among analytic philosophers. However, as the influence of logical positivism declined mid-century, analytic philosophers had a renewed interest in ethics.
Virtue ethics
Perhaps the most influential to do this was
Deontology
Applied ethics
A significant feature of analytic philosophy since approximately 1970 has been the emergence of applied ethics—an interest in the application of moral principles to specific practical issues. The philosophers following this orientation view ethics as involving humanistic values, which involve practical implications and applications in the way people interact and lead their lives socially.[44]
Topics of special interest for applied ethics include environmental issues, animal rights, and the many challenges created by advancing medical science.[45][46][47] In education, applied ethics addressed themes such as punishment in schools, equality of educational opportunity, and education for democracy.[48]
Political philosophy
Liberalism
Current analytic political philosophy owes much to
During recent decades there have also been several critiques of liberalism, including the
Consequentialist libertarianism also derives from the analytic tradition[citation needed].
Analytical Marxism
Another development of political philosophy was the emergence of the school of
Cohen himself would later engage directly with Rawlsian political philosophy to advance a
Communitarianism
Aesthetics
As a result of what seemed like rejections of the traditional aesthetic notions of beauty and sublimity from
Philosophy of language
Given the linguistic turn, it can be hard to separate metaphysics from the philosophy of language in early analytic philosophy. Philosophy of language is a topic that has decreased in activity during the last four decades, as evidenced by the fact that few major philosophers today treat it as a primary research topic. Indeed, while the debate remains fierce, it is still strongly influenced by those authors from the first half of the century:
In Saul Kripke's publication Naming and Necessity, Kripke challenges the descriptivist theory with a causal theory of reference.
Another influential philosopher,
Paul Grice and his maxims and theory of implicature established the discipline of pragmatics.
Philosophy of mind and cognitive science
Motivated by the logical positivists' interest in verificationism,
John Searle suggests that the obsession with the philosophy of language during the 20th century has been superseded by an emphasis on the philosophy of mind,[57] in which functionalism is currently the dominant theory. In recent years, a central focus of research in the philosophy of mind has been consciousness. While there is a general consensus for the global neuronal workspace model of consciousness,[58] there are many opinions as to the specifics. The best known theories are Daniel Dennett's heterophenomenology, Fred Dretske and Michael Tye's representationalism, and the higher-order theories of either David M. Rosenthal—who advocates a higher-order thought (HOT) model—or David Armstrong and William Lycan—who advocate a higher-order perception (HOP) model. An alternative higher-order theory, the higher-order global states (HOGS) model, is offered by Robert van Gulick.[59]
Philosophy of religion
In Analytic Philosophy of Religion, James Franklin Harris noted that
analytic philosophy has been a very heterogeneous 'movement'.... some forms of analytic philosophy have proven very sympathetic to the philosophy of religion and have provided a philosophical mechanism for responding to other more radical and hostile forms of analytic philosophy.[60]: 3
As with the study of ethics, early analytic philosophy tended to avoid the study of philosophy of religion, largely dismissing (as per the logical positivists) the subject as part of metaphysics and therefore meaningless.[61] The demise of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-study classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, (see existence of God) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.[62]
Plantinga, Mackie and Flew debated the logical validity of the free will defense as a way to solve the problem of evil.[63] Alston, grappling with the consequences of analytic philosophy of language, worked on the nature of religious language. Adams worked on the relationship of faith and morality.[64] Analytic epistemology and metaphysics has formed the basis for some philosophically sophisticated theistic arguments, like those of the reformed epistemologists like Plantinga.
Analytic philosophy of religion has also been preoccupied with Wittgenstein, as well as his interpretation of
Philosophy of science
In reaction to what he considered excesses of logical positivism,
Philosophy of time
Analytic philosophy of time traces its roots to the British idealist JME McTaggart's work The Unreality of Time. In it, McTaggart distinguishes between the dynamic, A theory of time (past, present, future) and the static, B theory of time (earlier than, simultaneous with, later than).
See also
- Analytic phenomenology
- Analytical Thomism
- Logicism
- Philosophical analysis
- Postanalytic philosophy
- Scientism
Notes
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- A.C. Grayling(ed.), Philosophy 2: Further through the Subject (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 2: "Analytic philosophy is mainly associated with the contemporary English-speaking world, but it is by no means the only important philosophical tradition. In this volume two other immensely rich and important such traditions are introduced: Indian philosophy, and philosophical thought in Europe from the time of Hegel." L.J. Cohen, The Dialogue of Reason: An Analysis of Analytical Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 5: "So, despite a few overlaps, analytical philosophy is not difficult to distinguish broadly [...] from other modern movements, like phenomenology, say, or existentialism, or from the large amount of philosophizing that has also gone on in the present century within frameworks deriving from other influential thinkers like Aquinas, Hegel, or Marx." H.-J. Glock, What Is Analytic Philosophy? (Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 86: "Most non-analytic philosophers of the twentieth century do not belong to continental philosophy."
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[...]the distinction rests upon a confusion of geographical and methodological terms, as if one were to classify cars into front-wheel drive and Japanese. [...] the distinction between analytic and Continental philosophy rests upon a confused comparison of methodological and geographical categories.
- ^ a b c Brian Leiter (2006) webpage "Analytic" and "Continental" Philosophy. Quote on the definition: "'Analytic' philosophy today names a style of doing philosophy, not a philosophical program or a set of substantive views. Analytic philosophers, crudely speaking, aim for argumentative clarity and precision; draw freely on the tools of logic; and often identify, professionally and intellectually, more closely with the sciences and mathematics, than with the humanities."
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- ^ Colin McGinn, The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (HarperCollins, 2002), p. xi.: "analytical philosophy [is] too narrow a label, since [it] is not generally a matter of taking a word or concept and analyzing it (whatever exactly that might be). [...] This tradition emphasizes clarity, rigor, argument, theory, truth. It is not a tradition that aims primarily for inspiration or consolation or ideology. Nor is it particularly concerned with 'philosophy of life', though parts of it are. This kind of philosophy is more like science than religion, more like mathematics than poetry—though it is neither science nor mathematics."
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Further reading
- The London Philosophy Study Guide Archived 23 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine offers many suggestions on what to read, depending on the student's familiarity with the subject: Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein
- Dummett, Michael. The Origins of Analytical Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Hirschberger, Johannes. A Short History of Western Philosophy, ed. Clare Hay. Short History of Western Philosophy, A. ISBN 978-0-7188-3092-2
- Hylton, Peter. Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Soames, Scott. Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century: Volume 1, The Dawn of Analysis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
- Passmore, John. A Hundred Years of Philosophy, revised ed. New York: Basic Books, 1966.
- Weitz, Morris, ed. Twentieth Century Philosophy: The Analytic Tradition. New York: Free Press, 1966.