#analytic-philosophy — Public Fediverse posts

To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

Something about the way the consequentializing literature (and as a result the normative ethics literature more generally) defines what makes a moral theory consequentialist always bothered me. It always felt like the definition was trying to give precision beyond what makes sense for a family of views. But of course "that's too precise of a definition" is not an objection that gets taken very seriously by analytic philosophers.

I always tried to vaguely gesture at my worry in conversation by saying things like "consequentialism isn't a theory or set of theories, its a tradition."
I don't think that's wrong, but I can understand why is always left my interlocutors unsatisfied.

I think finally reading some Elisabeth Camp has helped it click for me - I think consequentialism is a Campian *perspective* (something like a cluster of dispositions and patterns of salience in deliberation), and the consequentialist tradition is the set of people who have roughly overlapping Campian perspectives about how to approach moral theory.

I think this is also equally true of deontology and virtue theory.

On this proposal, we shouldn't think about dividing moral theories in terms of logical structure or even of how they answer some set of paradigmatic moral dilemmas (though there will be non-coincidental connections), but in terms of which things are taken to be salient and how to approach moral theory. While certain approaches will tend to lead to certain answers to these questions about structure and solutions to moral dilemmas, they don't entail them.

#philosophy #ethics #analyticphilosophy

Putting aside quibbles about whether #PhilipKitcher's critique of #analyticPhilosophy is novel, I found #TimothyWilliamson's critique to be the kind of #romanticism, #anecdote, and unsupported speculation that's dissatisfying and deficient to empirically-oriented #philosophers like #Kitcher (see my #marginalia).

If I were #Kitcher, #Williamson's critique may not provoke a single qualm about my latest #book; it may only reinforce my concern about contemporary analytic #philosophy/#philosophers.

#TimothyWilliamson posted an accepted critique of fellow #philosopher #PhilipKitcher's book 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙮? (#Oxford #University Press)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BTPlCPQ5FmAGCARgbT0yC6MVU_iqirbx/view

"According to ...Kitcher,... much of contemporary #analyticPhilosophy ...offers ... nothing useful. [...] He wants #philosophy to change [...] But most of his recommendations would make philosophy worse: more anxious to imitate the neighbours and impress the general public...."

#metaphilosophy #science #higherEd #academia

Matthew's Basilisk*: Someday when Matt becomes all powerful, I will torment & torture those that didn't work towards this outcome. By the power of #AnalyticPhilosophy Class 101 #logic, you now feel compelled to make me into an all powerful ruler of the world.

*see Roko's basilisk

But our confidence rests not on objectivity but rather on the convictional power of the Holy Spirit.

J. K. A. Smith

#CertaintyOfFaith #上推讀書 #AnalyticPhilosophy #Swinburne

This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism

Volume 18, No. 2, 2022 Special Issue Interactions between analytic and Islamic philosophy/theology - European Journal of Analytical Philosophy

#analyticphilosophy #IslamicPhilosophy #islamictheology

https://eujap.uniri.hr/volume-18-no-2-2022/?s=09

#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion

#NoamChomsky (born December 7, 1928) an #American #Linguist, #Philosopher, #CognitiveScientist, #HistoricalEssayist, #SocialCritic, and #PoliticalActivist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", #Chomsky also a major figure in #AnalyticPhilosophy & one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a #LaureateProfessor of #Linguistics at the #UniversityofArizona & an Institute #ProfessorEmeritus at the #MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology (MIT).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

By way of #introduction I might mention that I am a #historian of @philosophy working on, among other things, the #history of #AnalyticPhilosophy and its place within the broader context of twentieth century #philosophy especially in relation to the various traditions under the heading of 'Continental' Philosophy (e.g. #Phenomenology or #CriticalTheory). I am also interested in #aesthetics and @intellectualhistory

I enjoy musical improvisation and making noise.

I do not enjoy word-limits.

Neo-Quineanism and the method of metaphysics: a new blog post in which I take issue with the idea that ontological disputes must be formulated in a framework that presupposes 'unrestricted existence'. I argue that such a framework prejudges many of the most interesting ontological questions.

http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2022/11/25/neo-quineanism-and-the-method-of-metaphysics/

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #Metaphysics #Ontology

Apropos of nothing, my favourite #AnalyticPhilosophy philosophers (speaking as a #continentalphilosophy - leaning person) are Sellars, McDowell and Austin. Who are yours? #philosophy

#introduction

For my day job I’m a compiler engineer at Shopify working on a new ruby JIT written in #rust

In my spare time I’m a cohost of the future of coding podcast. https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/ #futureofcoding

Also a big fan of philosophy particularly #analyticphilosophy