Noël Carroll
Philosophy of Art: A contemporary introduction
(1999)
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Introduction
What is philosophy?
The word "philosophy" has many different meanings.
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Herein, "philosophy" will generally refer to a certain academic discipline.
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there are many different schools of philosophy,
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[which]
often have different aims and emphases.
The type of philosophy that we will we will be exploring in this book is often called
analytic philosophy.
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it is sometimes called "Anglo-American" philosophy,
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a somewhat misleading label
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it is not
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the only form of academic philosophy in the English-speaking world.
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"What exactly does this school of philosophy analyse?"
Simplifying drastically, we might say that
what analytic philosophy analyses
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are concepts.
That is why it is sometimes also called
conceptual analysis.
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Concepts, of course, are fundamental to human life.
Concepts organize our practices.
The concept of a person, for example,
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The concept of a number
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the concept of knowledge
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Without such concepts, the activities in question would not exist.
Ok,
so
politics, morality,number,
indeed
knowledge
itself,
these
practices
(a.k.a.
activities)
simply
would not exist
without the requisite
concepts.
How about without the
words?
Must we possess the word
in order to possess the concept?
