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    Category: Analytic – Continental divide (and its overcoming)

    • Conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy – Final draft

      By Catarina Dutilh Novaes I finally have a complete version of my paper 'Conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy', which I sent yesterday to the editors of the volume where it will appear: Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (edited by J. Bell, A. Cutrofello, and P.M. Livingston; in the series Routledge Studies in…

    • Philosophical Silencing: A Follow-Up

      By: Samir Chopra In response to my post on an act of philosophical silencing, Wesley Buckwalter wrote the following comment:   As you know, I was the gentleman that made that remark in a private facebook thread with a close friend. If I recall correctly, people in that thread were asking about whether certain kinds of thought…

    • Conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy – Part III.1: Genealogy as vindicatory or as subversive

      This is the sixth installment of the series of posts on my conceptual genealogy project.  Part I is here; Part II.1 is here; Part II.2 is here; Part II.3 is here; Part II.4 is here; a tentative abstract of 2 years ago, detailing the motivation for the project, is here.  In this post, I discuss in more detail the two…

    • Conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy – Part II.4: Foucault on archeology and genealogy

      By Catarina Dutilh Novaes I am now back to working on my conceptual genealogy project; this post is the fifth installment of a series of posts on the project.  Part I is here; Part II.1 is here; Part II.2 is here; Part II.3 is here; a tentative abstract of 2 years ago, detailing the motivation for the project, is…

    • List of crossover departments?

      As I've started to work through Alain Badiou's thought, it's really struck me how destructive the analytic-continental split has been to his English language reception. Even though Badiou says nasty things about French (post)structuralism and analytic philosophy, it's nearly impossible to really understand him unless you have less than trivial familiarity with both traditions. I'm…

    • Ferraris on Strawson and a Heidegger on Kant

      Nice NDPR review here by Riccardo Pozzo of Maurizio Ferraris' Goodbye Kant!: What Still Stands of the Critique of Pure Reason. According to Pozzo, the book is actually a best-seller in Italy, which is pretty cool. There's also this very funny passage (have to read it through to the end): For Ferraris, given that "ontology includes…

    • Analytic philosophy and rules bloat

      If I could go back in time and change the Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy anthology in one way, I would make sure that it included an essay on rules bloat. Nearly every role playing game suffers from this. At the outset the impetus is to present something that is easy for new players and…

    • Badiou against the Angles, the Saxons, and the Vikings too

      Wow Badiou says some weird things about analytic philosophy in the Introduction to Being and Event. The 'analytic' current of English-language philosophy discounts most of classical philosophy's propositions as senseless, or as limited to the exercise of a language game (1). . . .for Kant, the transcendental subject, after which the question [of the utility…

    • Great Sam Wheeler interview

      If Derrida's Baby Boomer detractors were correct about him being a charlatan, then thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Sam Wheeler, Lee Braver, and Martin Hagglund would have to be the lowest kinds of carny marks, about as gullible as the professional wrestling connoisseur from the American South who has yet to cotton on to the…

    • Mark Okrent interview (hat tip Graham Harman)

      Very nice Mark Okrent inteview here, which includes this gem: My single most important commitment in this area is that the intentionality of action is fundamental, and the intentionality of cognitive states, including conscious states, is to be understood in relation to this fundamental intentionality of action. Action, as action, always is directed towards some…