A group for document sharing and discussion about philosophy in the analytic tradition. (Including the history and future of analytic philosophy)
Lodewijk Muns deposited Musical Quotation and the ‘Use-Mention’ Distinction in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Studies of musical quotation generally downplay the possible parallels with linguistic quotation, and ignore the specialized debate around quotation in analytical philosophy. Basic to this debate is the idea that we can articulate (‘mention’) x without truly saying (‘using’) x. A quoted expression is set apart within the regular discourse in whic…[Read more]
Lajos Brons deposited Aphantasia, SDAM, and Episodic Memory in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Episodic memory (EM) involves re-experiencing past experiences by means of mental imagery. Aphantasics (who lack mental imagery) and people with severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) lack the ability to re-experience, which would imply that they don’t have EM. However, aphantasics and people with SDAM have personal and affective…[Read more]
Lajos Brons deposited Philosophy of mental time — A theme introduction in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
(First paragraphs.) — The notion of “mental time” refers to the experience and awareness of time, including that of past, present, and future, and that of the passing of time. This experience and awareness of time raises a number of puzzling questions. How do we experience time? What exactly do we experience when we experience time? Do we actua…[Read more]
Lajos Brons deposited Patterns, noise, and beliefs in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
In “Real Patterns” Daniel Dennett developed an argument about the reality of beliefs on the basis of an analogy with patterns and noise. Here I develop Dennett’s analogy into an argument for descriptivism, the view that belief reports do no specify belief contents but merely describe what someone believes, and show that this view is also supported…[Read more]
Martin Boehnert deposited Linguistisch-philosophische Untersuchungen zu Plausibilität: Über kommunikative Grundmuster bei der Entstehung von wissenschaftlichen Tatsachen in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Plausibilität spielt in allen Wissenschaftskulturen eine gewichtige Rolle – ob implizit oder explizit. Auffällig ist jedoch, dass es keiner spezifisch geschulten Kompetenz oder der Vermittlung eigenständiger Fähigkeiten bedarf, um einen Sachverhalt als “plausibel” zu beurteilen, während bei verwandten Begriffen wie etwa “logisch” je nach den meth…[Read more]
James McElvenny deposited Linguistic Aesthetics from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century: The Case of Otto Jespersen’s “Progress in Language” in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
From the early nineteenth century up until the first half of the twentieth century, many leading scholars in the emerging field of linguistics were occupied with what would today be considered a kind of linguistic typology. The various classifications of languages they proposed were generally intertwined with speculation about the “racial” tra…[Read more]
Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have “philosophy of…[Read more]Masahiro Morioka deposited Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
“Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality” is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]
James McElvenny deposited Ogden and Richards’ The Meaning of Meaning and early analytic philosophy in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
C.K. Ogden (1889–1957) and I.A. Richards’ (1893–1979) The Meaning of Meaning is widely recognised as a classic text of early twentieth-century linguistic semantics and semiotics, but less well known are its links to the ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), one of the foundational doctrines of analytic philosophy. In this paper a det…[Read more]
James McElvenny deposited International Language and the Everyday: Contact and Collaboration Between C.K. Ogden, Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Although now largely forgotten, the international language movement was, from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War, a matter of widespread public interest, as well as a concern of numerous scientists and scholars. The primary goal was to establish a language for international communication, but in the early twentieth century an increasing…[Read more]
Lajos Brons started the topic Group image / Header image in the discussion
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
The current group image (Quine’s passport photo) and group header image (a proposition from the Principia Mathematica) are mere placeholders awaiting more appropriate imagery. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post those (or links to them) here.
Lajos Brons created the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago