Sentences with phrase «analytic philosophy»

Even in the skeptical world of modern analytic philosophy, common sense could not be dragged into adopting a world - view based on the physical sciences alone.

Unfortunately for analytic philosophy, no religion can actually be understood on these terms.

My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.

Statements of this sort don't appear in analytic philosophy books every day.

He begins by presenting a novel, brief history of arguments in analytic philosophy between moral realism (the view that moral properties are objectively real) and moral expressivism (the view that moral judgments are subjective expressions).

C. Randolph Ross has a degree in analytic philosophy from the University of Virginia and has spent time in theological studies at Yale Divinity School.

Both Marxism and pragmatism, along with more recent analytic philosophies of action, help to make sure that the other moment of action or praxis in the self's essential structure will be brought out no less effectively than the moment of existence or self - understanding on which existentialist philosophy so sharply focuses.

The issue as to whether we can have an intelligible account of «being» is indeed vigorously discussed in philosophy today, and we can not treat with indifference the serious questions raised by modern analytic philosophy about the meaning of statements about being.

His work combines knowledge of Continental theology, American Christian ethics, and British analytic philosophy.

For example, a renewed discussion of the ontological argument in analytic philosophy as initiated by Norman Malcolm proceeded almost as if Hartshorne's much fuller treatment had not been published.

I had been interested in philosophy since I was a pretty young kid so I liked this, and I was doing analytic philosophy and phenomenology.

Its concreteness sets it apart from the arid abstraction of many works of analytic philosophy.

Aristotle's arguments about an unmoved mover, Aquinas» Five Ways, contemporary versions of the cosmological argument in analytic philosophy of religion» all of these are, in the end, proposed explanations of observed phenomena.

In particular, there is no space for either analytic philosophy or the traditional kind of literary criticism, practiced by Robert Alter or Harold Fisch, that concentrates on the poetic imagery and the narrative contours of the book.

Along the way, she counters the restricted rationalism of analytic philosophy and the utopianism of sundry liberationist proposals for «fixing» the world.

Already in The Idea of Nature, he made a distinction between Whitehead's realism and that of the analytic philosophy.23 In An Autobiography, he radicalizes that distinction, interpreting Whitehead's realism as contradictory to the realistic epistemology of the neo - positivists.24 Hence, he concludes that Whitehead's cosmology is in fact constructed on an anti-realistic principle (EM 176).

In the first section of the book, Lombardo draws on recent discussions in analytic philosophy to bring added clarity to the language of will, intention, and the possibility of «double effect reasoning.»

They also are growing more certain of their ability to use the tools of analytic philosophy to deepen the theistic community's understanding of its faith.

Parsons's book is devoted to providing «an introductory examination of recent attempts to defend traditional theism within the contexts of analytic philosophy.»

In his 2004 book Faithful Reason, John Haldane noted «without qualification» that throughout his training in analytic philosophy he never felt any tension between faith and reason.

Most American philosophers in the past half - century have belonged to the school of analytic philosophy.

Hence, the basic inconsistency of Locke's position, the emergence of various forms of idealism and later of Kant's critical philosophy, the success of analytic philosophy and of phenomenology.

I.e. it's a technical phrase in analytic philosophy.

Guidance for those charged with these weighty decisions has come in the surprising form of a calm, judicious tome written in the style of a polished essay in analytic philosophy, replete with Aristotelian - like categories and topped off with citations from contemporary empirical research on the impact of specific educational interventions.

I researched Boyd's theories via an article on his analytic philosophy of form published in Art Journal in 1991 under the title «Structure: A Personal History.»