They didn't just pick any random philosopher, and there's a reason that the first section (not just essay) is "The Kantian Legacy." — Terrapin Station
If it's because "Kant is the jumping-off point for continental philosophy" somehow despite not being a continental philosopher in their estimation, how does that work rather than picking some other philosopher, like Hume? — Terrapin Station
There's also, presumably, a reason why the first section is specifically about Kant's legacy and not Kant's work itself. — Echarmion
I was just wondering whether there was something specifically continental about Kant's philosophy. — Echarmion
analytic philosophy seems more ahistorical. — Coben
but analytic philosophers see the constant focus on that as being as OCDishly annoying as if we were to constantly tell physicists or chemists that they need to be talking about epistemology all the time and not just talking about forces and atoms and molecules and bonds and so on. It's not that the epistemological aspects are being denied or ignored. It's rather that analytic philosophers, like most scientists, most mathematicians, etc. think that we don't have to constantly just talk about epistemology. — Terrapin Station
Continental philosophers want to point out the necessity of epistemology in talking about "what is this stuff/how exactly does it work" — Terrapin Station
and there are plenty of idealist continental philosophers. — Terrapin Station
Like Popeye, I am what I am and that's all that I am. — Ciceronianus the White
Would you then argue that Analytic philosophy is an offshoot of Continental philosophy, if everything from Kant onward minus everything from Frege onward is Continental? Frege's immediate philosophical ancestor was a Continental? — Pfhorrest
I would say, for instance, that at the end of the day Wittgenstein is really just a Moorean — Snakes Alive
...which began not in puzzlement at the world, but in puzzlement at philosophers... — Snakes Alive
I would say the Frege-Russel line is really just an extension of Boole, — Snakes Alive
new scholastics — Snakes Alive
maybe the solution is not to reform the discipline, but simply to ignore it and do something else. — Snakes Alive
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