A few years ago, while I was pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, the philosopher Liam Kofi Bright wrote a ...

One important aspect of twentieth-century philosophy is the rise of what has been variously called “analytic,” “critical,” or “linguistic” philosophy. As in most such cases, no exact date can be ...

Philosophy is the attempt to answer fundamental questions about the nature of knowledge, reality, and morals. In North America and the United Kingdom, the dominant approach is analytic philosophy, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Precis explains the aims of my multi-volume work THE ANALYTIC TRADITION IN PHILOSOPHY and summarizes the contents of Volume 1. Journal ...

This essay argues that 20th century analytic philosophy can be fruitfully divided into two periods, the Russell-based extensionalist philosophy of the first half of the century and the Marcus-based ...

Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century is a marvelous introduction to analytic philosophy. The two volumes unfold as a series of studies of some of the most important and influential ...

I don’t know any academic field whose writing regularly indulges in sentence structure as complex as in analytic philosophy. I don’t know any academic field whose writing regularly indulges in ...

Philosophers explore questions about life on every level, from immediate ethical dilemmas to broader questions about human existence, justice, the nature of knowledge, and beauty. Philosophy majors ...