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Full Idea
There is nowadays little attempt to bring "analytic philosophy" to self-consciousness by explaining how to tell a successful from an unsuccessful analysis.
Clarification
'Analytical philosophy' is the main modern Anglo-American tradition
Gist of Idea
Analytical philosophy seems to have little interest in how to tell a good analysis from a bad one
Source
Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 4.1)
Book Ref
Rorty,Richard: 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' [Blackwell 1980], p.172