Why Unorthodox Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

espanolLa llamada filosofia analitica es un producto de comienzos del siglo XX, como resultado tanto de una respuesta a las revoluciones en logica, fisica y matematicas de ese periodo como de una reaccion a los sistemas metafisicos descontrolados que florecieron en la mayor parte del siglo XIX. Pero la llamada filosofia analitica estaba desde su mismo comienzo comprometida con un empirismo ideologico que cegaba la comprension tanto de la historia de la filosofia como de la fisica y la matematica. Su grotesca division de la filosofia en analitica y continental solo sirvio al proposito de excluir arbitrariamente importantes contribuciones a la filosofia rigurosa que no estaban basadas en el gigantesco dogma meta-teorico del empirismo. La filosofia analitica no-ortodoxa, por el contrario, aunque en modo alguno ignora los resultados de las ciencias fisicas, no esta basada en ningun dogma empirista, pues tiene perfecta conciencia de las dificultades del empirismo para entender tanto las ciencias fisicas como las deductivas. Algunas de esas dificultades de la ideologia empirista, tanto de naturaleza epistemologica general, como mas especificamente de su avaluo de la ciencia fisica y muy especialmente de sus descarriados intentos de comprender las ciencias deductivas, seran aqui examinados EnglishSo-called analytic philosophy is a product of early XXth century philosophy, resulting both as a response to the revolutions in logic, physics and mathematics of that period, as well as a reaction to the uncontrolled metaphysical systems that flourished in most of the XIXth century. But so-called analytic philosophy was from the very beginning biased by an ideological empiricism that blinded the understanding both of the history of philosophy, as well as that of physics and mathematics. Their grotesque division of philosophy in analytic and continental philosophy served only the purpose of arbitrarily excluding important contributions to rigorous philosophy not based on the gigantic meta-theoretic dogma of empiricism. Unorthodox analytic philosophy, on the contrary, though by no means ignoring the results of the physical sciences, is not based on any empiricist dogma, being perfectly conscious of the difficulties of empiricism to understand both physical and deductive sciences. Some of those difficulties of the empiricist ideology, both of general epistemological nature, and more specifically in the assessment of physical science and very especially in its misguided attempts to deal with the deductive sciences, will be examined