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Philosophy in America Today |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY |
| Author: Richard Rorty |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 8,327 Words, 50,772 Characters |
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Analytic Philosophy and the Tradition
Revolutionary movements within an intellectual discipline require a revisionist theory of that discipline. Reichenbach performed this service for analytic philosophy in his Rise of Scientific Philosophy. That book, published in 1951, presents the view of history which explains Quine's quip that people go into philosophy for one of two reasons: some are interested in the history of philosophy, and some in philosophy. Quine's wisecrack assumes, and Reichenbach's book argues, that the proper concern of philosophy is to solve a set of identifiable problems, problems arising out of the activity and results of the natural sciences. Reichenbach describes his book as follows: "It maintains that philosophic speculation is a passing stage, occurring wh...
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...t that we keep pragmatic tolerance going as long as we can - that both sides see the other as honest, if misguided, colleagues, doing their best to bring light to a dark time. In particular, we should remind ourselves that although there are relations between academic politics and real politics, they are not tight enough to justify carrying the passions of the latter over into the former. vbcrlf
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