Analytic philosophy in the search of the analytic self-concept

Abstract

Within the last three decades, intense work of analytic philosophers in the search of the analytic self-concept has made some of them not only negate the existence of the unique analytical tradition, but also deny the specificity of their own philosophical activities. These are the particular goals, which the editor of the collected papers “Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History” (2017) Aaron Preston and the author of the manuscript “On the traditionalist conjecture” Sandra Lapointe pursued. After a thorough analysis it becomes clear that these scientists’ arguments are weaker against the arguments of other scientists presented in the collection of papers. Close reading shows us that an attempt to interpret one or another analytic philosopher’s  writings  in a different way does not allow to take these authors out of the analytical context or exclude their writings from the analytical discourse.