VazScep wrote:If you say so. I only go by what professed analytic philosophers say.SpeedOfSound wrote:VazScep wrote:The most classic piece of philosophical analysis is the idea that knowledge is true, justified belief. This isn't how most people use the word "know", but you will find that philosophers will insist that this is the concept (the underlying concept?). That is, until you start talking about Gettier counterexamples, which show that this analysis of knowledge is wrong. That is, until you start doing empirical surveys of people's responses to Gettier cases, and start getting the impression that whether people think it is right or wrong might vary depending on which continent you grew up on.SpeedOfSound wrote:I don't understand this move against the analytic. Could you explain?
To put it glibly, analytic philosophy is what you get when you take language --- that system of mouth noises humans hurl at each other --- way too seriously, and continental is what you get when you take language as something that should be constantly undermined. I'm decidedly in the latter camp.
Interesting. I would of thought this was the other way round. When you analyze some meaning it falls to pieces infinitely, hence is not to be taken too seriously. So the analytic undermines.
I use David Chalmers' writings on the two dimensionality of conceivability as my goto for analytic philosophy at its worst. The more that meaning fractures in Chalmers' analysis, the more he doubles down thinking he's getting closer to bedrock.
I have a couple books on Chalmers and his 2D bit. All looks like cool math but I fail to see how Chalmers is getting to his crazy conclusion with it. A bit contrived.
I like to think I am analytic in looking at arguments and what I normally mean to show is that the premises of the arguments fail as the words and concepts used get smashed to bits. As soon as someone says 'consciousness' or 'mind' I start hammering. Most often the argument falls apart just as the first syllable passes the lip.
edit: someone actually did write a whole book on 2d conceivability. And I bought the damn thing.