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Full Idea
Certain advances in philosophical standards have been made within analytic philosophy, and there would be a serious loss of integrity involved in abandoning them in the way required to participate in current continental philosophy.
Gist of Idea
Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy
Source
Timothy Williamson (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001], p.151)
Book Ref
Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.151
A Reaction
The reply might be to concede the point, but say that the precision and rigour achieved are precisely what debar analytical philosophy from thinking about the really interesting problems. One might as well switch to maths and have done with it.
| 6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
| 6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
| 6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
| 6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
| 6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
| 6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |