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by igravious
3339 days ago
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Your take on the article is all wrong. And buzzwordy to boot. Analytic philosophy, though a broad church, is a number of things -- (1) a constrained style, one that tends to mimic the papers in logic or mathematics, certainly not one that is stylistically liberal (2) a reluctance to address certain topics, so philosophy of science (championed by Quine as mentioned in the article) to name but one out of a restricted set of topics is favoured (3) this one is important, analytic philosophy is very Anglo-American, and this shows. > Anybody know anything I should read besides Nozick along this vein? They mention two in the article: Hofstadter's nerd-famous G.E.B which I could not in good conscience recommend, and Rorty's _Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature_ which is a landmark text. One reason to recommend Rorty over Hofstadter to a person interested in philosophy is that PatMoN is a proper philosophical text and G.E.B is most certainly not. |
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