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title = "Analytic philosophy and its synoptic commission: towards the epistemic end of days",
abstract = "ABSTRACT: There is no such thing as {\textquoteleft}analytic philosophy{\textquoteright}, 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{\textquoteright}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. ",
author = "Fraser MacBride",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
series = "Royal Institute of Philosophy supplements",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press ",
pages = "221--236",
editor = "Anthony O'Hear",
booktitle = "Philosophical Traditions",
address = "India",
}