analytic philosophy

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nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

philosopher

analytic philosopher

innovator in the field of

metaphysics

philosophy of language

philosophy of logic

philosophy of mathematics

scientific organization

British Academy

university teacher

Academia Europaea

religion

Catholicism

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

World War II

philosophy

is grounded in the idea that a philosophical understanding of thought can and must be given by an account of language. It is distinguished from continental philosophy by this concern for language.

This reaction is not confined to lay people, but is shared by many philosophers Vho arc far removed from common sense. Indeed, !Vlichacl Dummett has claimed that the concern vith language is the elusive factor X, long sought for in vain by Anglo-European conferences, vhich separates the phenomenological tradition on the continent founded by Husserl from Anglophone analytic philosophy, which he traces back to Frege. Dummett defines analytic philosophy as based on the idea that a philosophical understanding of thought ca11 and must be given by an account of language. This contrasts vith the philosophy of thought, Vhich retains the idea that philosophy should investigate thought, but claims that this investigation is independent of and antecedent to an understanding of language (1993, chs. 2, 12, 13). According to Dummett, this vie'v informs not just phenomenology, but also recent York vithin the Anglophone philosophical community... he mentions the Oxford philosophers Gareth Evans and Christopher Peacocke, but John Searle, Thomas Nagel and Colin McGinn also come to mind. Strictly speaking, therefore, these philosophers no longer count as analytic. T(hought and Language By John Preston)

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