Sentences with phrase «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.

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

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).

I think it would be beneficial both to Whitehead studies and to relevant portions of analytic philosophy to bring Whitehead more back into the American philosophical mainstream by considering his specific problems and solutions in light of current interests and as susceptible to criticisms from current perspectives.

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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).

In his 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio, he again warned that theology needs both analytic rigor and a sapiential dimension drawn from a philosophy of being.

My purpose is to show that If my efforts are successful, we then have before us the prospect of unifying the major thrusts of twentieth century philosophy (viz., analytic, process, and phenomenological) under the single theme of intentionality.

Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history ofPhilosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history ofphilosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).

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.

If, as I suggested in the last section, the obvious and oft - noted differences between Russell and Whitehead symbolize the current analytic - speculative split, then the kinds of similarities and (perhaps even more importantly) the areas of mutual influence, indebtedness, and philosophic enrichment to which Professor Kuntz rightly points can suggest to contemporary philosophers a neutral «dialogical territory» beyond the present, hostile philosophic «demilitarized zone,» which is no longer itself viable, interesting, or worthy of the vocation of philosophy.

By and large the analytic philosophers who have led the resurgence of interest in the philosophy of religion have shown little interest in either fideism or the often - skeptical themes of Continental philosophy (they have shown somewhat more interest in process theology).

While I sought to avoid the ultra-dull prose style in which so much contemporary moral philosophy is written, the quasi-mathematical coolness of the book's tone is an inherent feature of my chosen genre of analytic political theory.

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.

If you know your philosophy, you are probably familiar with the efforts of the 20th century analytics to provide logical «foundations» for all of knowledge, including mathematics.

The founding trauma of positivist and analytic philosophy (which, of course, had its milder predecessors with similar tendencies and effects) had its impact here too, and a great many biblical scholars are averse to linking their guild activities in any way with theology.

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.

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.

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.

Concerned with analytic or semiotic philosophy, the paintings by Aldo Walker stand as illustrations of the dissonant relationship between the sign and the signified.

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.»

Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College, Adrian Piper is a theorist / critic and a distinguished analytic philosopher whose research publications are in metaethics and Kant's metaphysics.

Legal philosopher Frederick Schauer praises the article for «analytic precision, careful argument, useful distinctions, and just the right amount of philosophy».