"Many philosophers strike me as like Polish apparatchiks in 1983-they turn up to work and do what they did yesterday just because they don't know what else to do, not because they seriously believe in the system they are maintaining. I think it's not been fully appreciated how much of a blow it is to the confidence of the field's youth that scientific ambitions are increasingly abandoned as untenable."
"I now believe that identifying naturalist philosophy as just one strand of analytic philosophy is a mistake. The very approach to doing philosophy, as I emphasized in my last blog post, is fundamentally different and opposed to each other. But I acknowledge that most philosophers I have ever discussed this topic with were quite surprised to hear me say that I did not consider myself an analytic philosopher."
Naturalistic philosophy is commonly treated as a niche strand of analytic philosophy because of its claimed continuity with science, and many philosophers therefore undercount its distinctiveness. Liam Kofi Bright critiques analytic philosophy's scientific ambitions and institutional inertia, describing practitioners as perpetuating routines rather than genuinely committed scientific projects, and arguing that abandoning scientific ambitions undermines youthful confidence. The naturalist approach adopts methods continuous with empirical science and emphasizes different procedures and goals than mainstream analytic or continental traditions. Identifying naturalist philosophy as simply analytic obscures substantive methodological and philosophical differences, suggesting a useful tripartite division of philosophical kinds.
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