Jim Farmelant·Aug 30, 2025Don’t atheists feel a religious need?Some do while others don’t One atheist who did admit to feeling religious needs was the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. As…
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopher·May 20, 2024The Anal-lyticPhilosopher Series: Sitting Down(Link to the Title Page, Preface and Table of Contents)
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopher·May 20, 2024Quine on The Roots of ReferenceThere is an old saying that “a problem well posed is half solved.” With this saying goes a correlate: “to set up a problem that does not…A response icon1A response icon1
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopher·May 20, 2024Rorty on DerridaRorty goes some heroic miles to save Derrida from the anal-lytic dung heap. Are they worth traveling with him?
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopher·May 20, 2024Putnam Faces down Objective RealismIn The Many Faces of Realism Putnam engages in the time honored strategy of looking towards one’s own assumptions and conceptions to…
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopher·May 20, 2024Philosophy and the Fun-house Mirror of NatureRorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature suffers from conceptual distortions fatal to the project he sets out to complete. Through these…
