The Problem of Analytic Philosophy*. Issue 5 (September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Agassi, Joseph; Jarvie, Ian C.
• Is Part Of: Philosophy of the social sciences. Volume 49:Issue 5(2019)
• Page Start: 413
• Page End: 433
• Publication Date: 2019-09
• Subjects: analytic philosophy -- sociology of philosophy -- Gellner -- Wittgenstein -- language philosophy -- Russell; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Sciences sociales -- Périodiques; Sciences sociales -- Méthodologie -- Périodiques; 300.1
• DOI: 10.1177/0048393119853246
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0048-3931

Abstract

Dainton and Robinson's Companion traces lines of descent of analytic philosophy from ancestors. They characterize analytic philosophy as a movement, a tradition, a style, and a commitment to the values of clarity and rigor. Critics of the ancestral movements and of analytic philosophy as such are conspicuous by their absence. The sociology of the spread of analytic philosophy is ventured, updating the original effort by Gellner.