Analytic philosophy, 1925–69: emergence, management and nature

Katzav, Joel

doi:10.1080/09608788.2018.1450219

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“…All in all, it appears that the years surrounding 1960 mark a turning point in this process of change, and that the late sub-corpus is dominated by typically analytic approaches and concerns. This pattern is confirmed by a recent qualitative study on the rise of analytic philosophy within the Journal (Katzav 2018). It is worth observing that the lexical turn within the full-text corpus coincided with a major change in the editors' panel of the journal (see above, Sect.…”

Section: Some Conclusion About the Analytic Turnsupporting

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Tracing the Words of the Analytic Turn in the Journal of Philosophy

Spolaore

Giaretta

2018

Tracing the Life Cycle of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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We carried out a quantitative analysis of the twentieth-century philosophical lexicon, based on corpora drawn from a leading US philosophical review, the Journal of Philosophy. In the chapter, we present and discuss some findings of ours, with special regard to analytic philosophy, a contemporary philosophical tradition that plays a leading role in the English-speaking world. More specifically, we present some results that are relevant to the process of rise to dominance of analytic philosophy in the USA-a process that we call "analytic turn". In a nutshell, we found that the lexicon related to topics that are characteristic of (half-of-the-century) analytic philosophy, such as semantics, logic and epistemology, underwent a significant gain in importance within the Journal of Philosophy during the three post-Second War decades. We also observed a corresponding decrease in importance of the lexicon related to non-English speaking, "continental" philosophy, and to themes of generic human and social interest. We also found that the turning point in both processes can be approximately located between the mid-1950s and the early 1960s. Although we shall discuss reasons to be cautious in drawing conclusions

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Section: Some Conclusion About the Analytic Turnsupporting

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“…Katzav (2018) explicitly hypothesizes a connection between the composition of the editors' panel and the publication policy of the Journal.…”

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Tracing the Words of the Analytic Turn in the Journal of Philosophy

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2018

Tracing the Life Cycle of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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“…While speculative philosophy generally aimed to produce its own, independent substantive claims about reality through critical engagement with established opinion (Katzav 2018), speculative philosophy of science put particular emphasis on engaging with science in developing substantive claims.…”

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“…We then apply (section 3) our recent institutional explanation for the emergence of analytic philosophy (Katzav andVaesen 2017a, 2017b;Katzav 2018) to the case of the rise of logical empiricism. We have argued that part of the explanation for the dominance of analytic philosophy in the United Kingdom and America is the success of analytic philosophers during the period 1925-1969 in taking over key academic institutions, including key journals, and using this control to promote analytic philosophy and to marginalize speculative and other forms of non-analytic philosophy.…”

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The Rise of Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science and the Fate of Speculative Philosophy of Science

Katzav¹,

Vaesen²

2022

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History

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This paper contributes to explaining the rise of logical empiricism in mid-twentieth century (North) America and to a better understanding of American philosophy of science before the dominance of logical empiricism. We show that, contrary to a number of existing histories, philosophy of science was already a distinct subfield of philosophy, one with its own approaches and issues, even before logical empiricists arrived in America. It was a form of speculative philosophy with a concern for speculative metaphysics, normative issues relating to science and society and issues which later were associated with logical empiricist philosophy of science, issues such as confirmation, scientific explanation, reductionism and laws of nature. Further, philosophy of science was not primarily pragmatist in orientation. We also show, with the help of our historical characterization, that a recent account of the emergence of analytic philosophy applies to the rise of logical empiricism. It has been argued that the emergence of American analytic philosophy is partly explained by analytic philosophers' use of key institutions, including of journals, to marginalize speculative philosophy and promote analytic philosophy. We argue that this use of institutions included the marginalization of speculative and value-laden philosophy of science and the promotion of logical empiricism.Acknowledgements: we would like to thank the paper's anonymous reviewers for their useful comments.

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“…As there is some evidence that the highest tiers of common journal rankings do not represent all of philosophy adequately-they seem to favour for example analytical philosophy journals over Continental ones (Schwitzgebel 2012;Katzav 2018)-they could not be used for our sample. PhilPapers, an expansive index of recent philosophy, has compiled a list of 1349 journals of philosophy, which links, at the time of writing to 1,782,816 indexed articles (Bourget 2019).…”

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Modeling the structure of recent philosophy

Noichl

2019

Synthese

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This paper presents an approach of unsupervised learning of clusters from a citation database, and applies it to a large corpus of articles in philosophy to give an account of the structure of the discipline. Following a list of journals from the PhilPapersarchive, 68,152 records were downloaded from the Reuters Web of Science-Database. Their citation data was processed using dimensionality reduction and clustering. The resulting clusters were identified, and the results are graphically represented. They suggest that the division of analytic and Continental philosophy in the considered timespan is overstated; that analytical, in contrast to Continental philosophy does not form a coherent group in recent philosophy; and that metaphors about the disciplinary structure should focus on the coherence and interconnectedness of a multitude of smaller and larger subfields.

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Analytic philosophy, 1925–69: emergence, management and nature

Cited by 18 publications

References 76 publications

Tracing the Words of the Analytic Turn in the Journal of Philosophy

Tracing the Words of the Analytic Turn in the Journal of Philosophy

The Rise of Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science and the Fate of Speculative Philosophy of Science

Modeling the structure of recent philosophy

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