Analytic philosophy and its synoptic commission: towards the epistemic end of days

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Abstract

ABSTRACT: There is no such thing as ‘analytic philosophy’, conceived as a special discipline with its own distinctive subject matter or peculiar method. But there is an analytic task for philosophy that distinguishes it from other reflective pursuits, a global or synoptic commission: to establish whether the final outputs of other disciplines and common sense can be fused into a single periscopic vision of the Universe. And there is the hard-won insight that thought and language aren’t transparent but stand in need of analysis - a recent variation upon the abiding philosophical theme that we need to get behind appearances to tell the ultimate truth about reality- an insight that threatens to be lost once philosophers appeal to intuitions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPhilosophical Traditions
EditorsAnthony O'Hear
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Pages221-236
Number of pages16
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Publication series

NameRoyal Institute of Philosophy supplements
PublisherCambridge University Press

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