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analytic philosophy

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analytic philosophy
n.
1. A cluster of philosophical traditions holding that argumentation and clarity are vital to productive philosophical inquiry.
2. A philosophical school of the 20th century whose central methodology is the analysis of concepts or language. Leading practitioners have included Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Rudolf Carnap, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
3. Philosophy as professionally practiced in the United States and Great Britain in the 20th century.
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The young Scruton rejected faith and succumbed to the promises of science, later studying analytic philosophy at Cambridge.
Recovering the holy by Faulkner, Steve / Modern Age
He is the author of numerous articles in both domestic and foreign journals and the books Against Relativism: A Philosophical Defense of Method and Analytic Philosophy of Religion.
Religion and liberal democracy by Harris, James F. / The Humanist
The book begins by discussing an assortment of topics: the ethics of Aristotle, Kant, and Levinas, analytic philosophy, freedom, artificial intelligence, Sigmund Freud, social determinism, the importance of language, and narcissism.
In Search of the Good: a catholic understanding of moral living by Shea, John / Catholic Insight
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