Why Unorthodox Analytic Philosophy
Abstract
So-called analytic philosophy is a product of early XXth century philosophy, resulting both as a response to the revolutions in logic, physics and mathematics of that period, as well as a reaction to the uncontrolled metaphysical systems that flourished in most of the XIXth century. But so-called analytic philosophy was from the very beginning biased by an ideological empiricism that blinded the understanding both of the history of philosophy, as well as that of physics and mathematics. Their grotesque division of philosophy in analytic and continental philosophy served only the purpose of arbitrarily excluding important contributions to rigorous philosophy not based on the gigantic meta-theoretic dogma of empiricism. Unorthodox analytic philosophy, on the contrary, though by no means ignoring the results of the physical sciences, is not based on any empiricist dogma, being perfectly conscious of the difficulties of empiricism to understand both physical and deductive sciences. Some of those difficulties of the empiricist ideology, both of general epistemological nature, and more specifically in the assessment of physical science and very especially in its misguided attempts to deal with the deductive sciences, will be examined.
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