I’m spending weeks reading many subfields in analytic philosophy, defensively. All comprehensively nonsense which I’m not going to discuss, but they do treat the phenomena I’m writing about, so I feel I have to be sure I’m not missing anything important.https://twitter.com/PaperFury/status/1027666554677166080 …
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Analytic philosophy pervasively commits a characteristically rationalist error: substituting a formal abstract problem for a real world topic, generating technical problems within the abstraction, failing to solve them, and trying harder instead of questioning the formalization
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I thought analytic philosophy was a move away from that tendency? Instead of trying to *define"?* "free will", or "justice", see how people actually use the term to find the contours of its meaning. Thus, people like Wittgenstein and Austin moved away from Russell and co?
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That has not been the main tendency of the past half century.
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