What is "Analytic" Philosophy? No one knows...

Professor Levy's rhetorically ingenious reply to my posting on Kolakowski--ingenious because crafted precisely and effectively to be convincing to those who don't know anything about the subject (for example)--invokes the favorite bogeyman of those who find philosophy rather too hard: namely, "analytic philosophy." But as I write in the introduction to The Future for Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2004): . "'Analytic' philosophy, the target of many polemics by those with little knowledge of the discipline, is defunct." For more on why Levy, and all those others who invoke "analytic philosophy" as an epithet and argument-stopper, don't know what they're talking about, see the selected excerpts from the Introduction here:Download file