Post-analytical philosophy
The term post -analytical philosophy denotes currents of contemporary philosophy that break away from the basic assumptions of the classics of analytical philosophy , but are still influenced by classical-analytical literature, methodology and the corresponding canon of classics.
background
The detachment is often based on dissatisfaction with naturalism and with the fading out of cultural ties and historicity of language and thought. In doing so, some philosophers are turning to pragmatism and alternative continental European theoretical traditions , such as idealistic , hermeneutic and post-structuralist philosophy . Often the focus of philosophizing shifts away from logic , natural philosophy and philosophy of mind to questions of politics , ethics , literature , art and religion , sometimes with connection to cultural studies . Nevertheless, there is broad continuity with the clear argumentative style of classical analytical philosophy. For this reason alone, the designation of some philosophers as "post-analytical" is controversial. Instead, many simply speak of a further development of analytical philosophy.
Important representatives
In the English-speaking area and a.
- Willard Van Orman Quine , whose essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" from 1953 influenced many post-analytic philosophers, especially in turning away from empirical narrowness and expanding theories about truth, meaning, reference and knowledge
- Quine's pupil Saul Aaron Kripke , whose second major work is the systematic discussion of Wittgenstein's late work and it contained a. a. has had a strong influence on language-pragmatic approaches
- Stanley Cavell , who, influenced by the language pragmatics of Austin, has worked on a wide range of material from continental European literature and philosophy and a. was often a stimulus in post-analytical debates on the concept of reason
- Hilary Putnam , who especially in later works often refers to classics of American pragmatism, defended a relativity of metaphysical reference to conceptual schemes, tried to establish an "ethics without ontology" and an anthropologically based philosophy of religion and also various continental philosophers such. B. Dedicated to Emmanuel Levina's studies
- Donald Davidson , who u. a. was influenced by Quine, Frank Ramsey, Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein and has made important and systematically related contributions in almost all disciplines of systematic philosophy and is perhaps surpassed in its history of impact by his teacher Quine
- Robert Brandom
- John McDowell
- Charles Taylor
- Martha Nussbaum
- Thomas S. Kuhn , whose consideration of the relativity of confirmation procedures based on "paradigms" challenged many analytical theorists
- Peter Strawson
- the late Richard Rorty , who u. a. has developed a neo-pragmatist theory of truth and a cultural relativism and has demonstratively not only switched from the philosophical to the literary faculty, but has also given a concise explanation for this step
In the German-speaking area u. a. Peter Bieri and Herbert Schnädelbach .
literature
sorted chronologically and by author
Primary literature
- Willard Van Orman Quine: Word and Object , 1960, ISBN 0-262-67001-1 (German: Word and Object, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-009987-0 )
- Willard Van Orman Quine: From a Logical Point of View. 9 Philosophical Essays , 1961, ISBN 0-674-32351-3 (German: From a logical standpoint, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-548-35010-0 )
- Peter Strawson: The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason . London: Methuen, 1966 (German: The Limits of Sense. A Commentary on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" . Translated by Ernst Michael Lange. Königstein / Ts .: Hain, 1981).
- Saul Aaron Kripke: Naming and Necessity , 1972, ext. 1980 (German: Name and Necessity ), ISBN 0-631-12801-8 .
- Herbert Schnädelbach: Analytical and post-analytical philosophy. Lectures and papers . Frankfurt a. M. 2004.
- Hilary Putnam: Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality ., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1979, ISBN 0-521-29551-3
- Hilary Putnam: Reason, Truth and History ( Reason, truth, and history ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1982 ISBN 3-518-06034-1
- Hilary Putnam: Representation and Reality ( Representation and reality ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991 ISBN 3-518-58090-6
- Peter Bieri: "What remains of the analytical philosophy?". German Journal of Philosophy , 2007- Issue III, pp. 333–344.
- Donald Davidson: Essays on Truth and Interpretation , Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1984. ISBN 978-0199246298 .
- Donald Davidson: Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective , Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001. ISBN 978-0198237532 .
- Charles Taylor: Explanation and Interpretation in the Human Sciences, Frankfurt a. M. 1976.
- Richard Rorty: Contingency, Solidarity and Irony, Frankfurt a. M. 1992.
- Stanley Cavell : According to philosophy. Essays (Eds. Ludwig Nagl and Kurt Rudolf Fischer ), second, expanded and revised edition, Berlin 2001 (1st edition, Vienna 1987) ISBN 3-05-003421-1
Secondary literature
- John Rajchman, Cornel West (eds.): Post-analytic Philosophy , Columbia University Press, New York 1985, ISBN 3-486-53801-2 (contains articles by, among others, Richard Rorty , Hilary Putnam , Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell , Thomas S. Kuhn , Donald Davidson and John Rawls ).
- Where does analytical philosophy stand today? (Ed. Ludwig Nagl and Richard Heinrich), Vienna-Munich 1986. Wiener Series - Topics of Philosophy, Volume 1 (contains essays by, inter alia, Peter F. Strawson , Richard Rorty , Stanley Cavell and Arthur Danto), ISBN 3-486 -53801-2
- Rebekka Reinhard: Against philosophical fundamentalism. Post-analytical and deconstructivist perspectives , Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3770538294 .
- Stephen Mullhall: Post-Analytic Philosophy , in: J.Baggini / J.Stangroom (eds.): New British Philosophy: the Interviews , Routledge, London 2002.
- John Mullarkey: Post-Continental Philosophy : An Outline, Continuum 2006, ISBN 0826464610 . Review by Alistair Welchman.