Degrees of Freedom: Is Good Philosophy Bad Science?
The lecture starts by considering analytic philosophy as a tradition, and its global spread over recent years, of which Disputatio's success is itself evidence. The costs and benefits of the role of English as the international language of analytic philosophy are briefly assessed. The spread of anal...
| Publicado en: | Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 13; no. 61; pp. 73 - 95 |
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Nov2021
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