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- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Analytic Philosophy
- Part II Continental Philosophy
- Part III Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy
- Section Eight Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers
- 42 Rethinking the Analytic/Continental Divide
- 43 Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy
- 44 Phenomenology Meets Philosophy of Mind and Language
- 45 The Impact of Pragmatism
- 46 Unruly Readers, Unruly Words
- 47 Anglo-American Existential Phenomenology
- 48 A Conceptual Genealogy of the Pittsburgh School
- Section Nine Comparative Philosophy
- Part IV Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
- References
- Index
42 - Rethinking the Analytic/Continental Divide
from Section Eight - Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2019
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Analytic Philosophy
- Part II Continental Philosophy
- Part III Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy
- Section Eight Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers
- 42 Rethinking the Analytic/Continental Divide
- 43 Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy
- 44 Phenomenology Meets Philosophy of Mind and Language
- 45 The Impact of Pragmatism
- 46 Unruly Readers, Unruly Words
- 47 Anglo-American Existential Phenomenology
- 48 A Conceptual Genealogy of the Pittsburgh School
- Section Nine Comparative Philosophy
- Part IV Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
- References
- Index
Summary
Almost everyone who studies the philosophical issues surrounding “the analytic/Continental divide” now recognizes that the supposed dichotomy between “analytic” and “Continental” philosophy is itself deeply problematic philosophically.1 I’ll drop the quotes before they become tedious, but I do want to insist that, as Bernard Williams (2006) famously pointed out, cross-classifying the main division within contemporary Western philosophy in the mixed, geographical-cum-methodological terms analytic and Continental is rather like trying to sort cars into two (would-be) mutually exclusive groups, those “with an automatic transmission,” on the one hand, and those “made in Germany,” on the other.2
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- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015 , pp. 569 - 589Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019