出版社：Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
摘要：The contemporary popularity of the prefix post has found its expression also in the realm o f analytic philosophy there arises something which has come to be called postanalytic philosophy. We put forward that this branch of the analytic movement,germinating in the writings of the late Ludwig Wittgenstein,of Willard Van Orman Quine and Willfrid Sellars,and coming to full blossom with Nelson Goodman,Donald Davidson,Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty,springs first and foremost from the repudiation of the doctrine of logical atomism as entertained by Bertrand Russell and the early Wittgenstein. The dismantling of this doctrine means especially the denial of the following four points: (1) the atomistic character of language; (2) the sharp boundary between analytic and contingent statements; (3) the sharp boundary between 'given' and 'inferred' knowledge; and also (4) the essential cummulativity o f knowledge. Postanalytic philosophy is thus essentially holistic; and we put forward that in fact postanalytic philosophy equals analytic philosophy minus logical atomism.
