About this episode
Walter Veit discusses the challenges and future of analytic philosophy and introduces naturalistic philosophy as a successor paradigm.
Click on the video above if you want to listen to this essay in my German accent or simply scroll below to read it. A few weeks ago, I published an essay on Substack titled The End of Analytic Philosophy . In it, I agreed with Liam Kofi Bright that analytic philosophy has perhaps come close to becoming a degenerating research programme, leaving even many of its practitioners with a pessimistic outlook on its future. But the post was not at all meant to be depressing, for I offered a successor paradigm: naturalistic philosophy. A philosophy strongly continuous with, and often collaborative with, the sciences in order to make progress on our field’s most pressing problems. I was a bit worried about coming out as a ‘non-analytic philosopher’, since most of my peers happily use the label of analytic philosopher for themselves. I was therefore happy to see the overwhelmingly positive reactions that made my essay go somewhat viral on substack and gained me a ton of new subscribers. However, this also brought with it a new bar for my writing, making me go from an experimental week of daily posts to much less frequent posts. Now, I had a good excuse, since I was committed to several…
People in this episode
Host: Walter Veit
Topics covered
- analytic philosophy
- naturalistic philosophy
- science collaboration
- philosophical paradigms
- writing challenges
Keywords
- analytic philosophy
- naturalistic philosophy
- Liam Kofi Bright
- writing
- Substack
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The End of Analytic Philosophy
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