https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/tags/analytic-philosophy/ Recent content in Analytic Philosophy on Philosophy in Summary — Thinkers & Syntheses Hugo en Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/wittgenstein-tractatus-investigations-language-games/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/wittgenstein-tractatus-investigations-language-games/ Ludwig Wittgenstein's path: the picture theory of the Tractatus, the silence of proposition 7, and the turn of the Philosophical Investigations toward meaning as use and language-games. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/structure-of-reality-philosophical-traditions/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/structure-of-reality-philosophical-traditions/ A panoramic journey through philosophy's most fundamental question — what is reality? — from the Pre-Socratics to quantum physics, through Plato, Aristotle, medievalism, rationalism, idealism, materialism, phenomenology, and analytic philosophy. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/bernard-williams/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/bernard-williams/ Bernard Williams (1929–2003): the critique of utilitarianism and Kantian morality, integrity, moral luck, internal reasons, and the limits of moral theory. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/russell/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/russell/ Born in 1872 into an influential British aristocratic family — he was the grandson of a prime minister — Bertrand Russell had one of the longest and most… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/daniel-dennett/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/daniel-dennett/ Daniel Dennett (1942–2024): the intentional stance, the Multiple Drafts Model, heterophenomenology, skepticism about qualia, and compatibilism in philosophy of mind. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/david-chalmers/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/david-chalmers/ David Chalmers (b. 1966): the hard problem of consciousness, philosophical zombies, naturalistic dualism, panpsychism, and two-dimensional semantics. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/donald-davidson/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/donald-davidson/ Donald Davidson (1917–2003): anomalous monism, mental events, Tarskian semantics, the principle of charity, and radical interpretation in analytic philosophy. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/elizabeth-anscombe/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/elizabeth-anscombe/ G. E. M. Anscombe (1919–2001): founder of contemporary philosophy of action, translator of Wittgenstein, and catalyst of the virtue ethics revival. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/ge-moore/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/ge-moore/ British philosopher, co-founder — alongside Russell and Frege — of analytic philosophy. His critique of British idealism and his work in ethics decisively… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/frege/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/frege/ A German mathematician born in 1848, Gottlob Frege spent almost his entire career as a professor at Jena, in relative obscurity — his genius would be… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/hla-hart/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/hla-hart/ British legal philosopher, leading exponent of 20th-century legal positivism; The Concept of Law (1961) reshaped the debate on the nature of law. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/hilary-putnam/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/hilary-putnam/ Hilary Putnam (1926–2016): semantic externalism, Twin Earth, functionalism, internal realism, and the thesis that 'meanings just ain't in the head'. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/searle/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/searle/ John Rogers Searle, born in Denver (Colorado) in 1932, is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His contributions span philosophy… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/kwame-anthony-appiah/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/kwame-anthony-appiah/ Kwame Anthony Appiah was born on 8 May 1954 in London, to a Ghanaian father (Joe Appiah, lawyer and politician) and a British mother (Peggy Cripps). He… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/wittgenstein/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/wittgenstein/ Born in Vienna in 1889, into one of the wealthiest and most cultured families of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ludwig Wittgenstein began by studying… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/philippa-foot/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/philippa-foot/ Philippa Foot (1920–2010): pioneer of the virtue ethics revival, originator of the trolley problem and of ethical naturalism in Natural Goodness. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/rorty/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/rorty/ Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher who taught at Princeton, the University of Virginia, and Stanford. He began as an analytic philosopher… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/rudolf-carnap/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/rudolf-carnap/ Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970): central figure of the Vienna Circle and logical empiricism, the rejection of metaphysics, the principle of tolerance, and internal versus external questions. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/saul-kripke/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/saul-kripke/ Saul Kripke (1940–2022): rigid designators, a posteriori necessity, causal theory of reference, and possible worlds semantics — a revolution in analytic philosophy. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/thomas-nagel/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/thomas-nagel/ Thomas Nagel (b. 1937): the subjective character of experience in 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?', the tension between subjective and objective views, and his critique of reductionism. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/quine/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/quine/ Willard Van Orman Quine was one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the 20th century. A professor at Harvard for decades, his work… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/wilfrid-sellars/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/wilfrid-sellars/ Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989): the critique of the Myth of the Given, the logical space of reasons, the manifest and scientific images, and the myth of Jones about the mental.