Answer to Question #240021 in Philosophy for Zach

Question

There are 2 major approaches in doing Philosophy: Speculative philosophy and Analytical Philosophy. in your own perspective, how will you differentiate these two approaches using one scenario that happened in your life? Explain why the scenario become speculative and why it become analytical

Answer 1

Analytic philosophers conduct conceptual investigations that typically, but not always, include studies of the language in which the concepts under consideration are or can be expressed. According to one analytic philosophy tradition (sometimes referred to as formalism), the definition of a concept can be determined by uncovering the underlying logical structures, or "logical forms," of the sentences used to express it. According to the formalists, a clear representation of these structures in the language of modern symbolic logic would make clear the logically permissible inferences to and from such sentences, thereby establishing the logical boundaries of the system.

Another tradition, known as in formalism, focused on the sentences in which the concept was expressed but emphasized their diverse uses in everyday language and situations, with the goal of elucidating the concept by observing how its various features are reflected in how people actually talk and act. Even among analytic philosophers whose approaches were not primarily formalist or in formalist, philosophical problems were frequently conceived of as issues concerning the nature of language. An influential debate in analytic ethics, for example, centered on the question of whether sentences expressing moral judgments could be considered sentences.