Sociological Aspects of the Relation between Language and Philosophy

Bibliographic Data

ID10703161
AuthorsLewis S Feuer (University of Vermont, corresponding author)
Year1953
Volume20
Issue2
Pages85-100
Publication date1953-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/287248
OpenAlexW2071342638
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited3

Language is the primary fact which concerns contemporary philosophy. Men have been speaking and writing for a long time, but it is only recently that the task of philosophy has been said to be the analysis of language. Ethical perplexities, social anxieties, the nature of scientific knowledge, religious speculations, are held not to be directly the problems of the philosopher. They enter his study by way of a domain of languages and sub-languages. This preoccupation with language is itself an unusual phenomenon in our intellectual history. It challenges the sociologist of philosophic ideas for an explanation, and it leads one to wonder upon what evidence philosophers have accepted the doctrine of linguistic primacy

Doctrine · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Phenomenon · Philosophy of language · Relation (database) · Sociology · Wonder · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History

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