QUESTIONABLE ASPECTS OF REGIONAL EXPANSION OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY A CRITICAL REVIEW

Abstract

This paper examines the phenomenon of the progressive expansion of analytic philosophy within regional academic centres. Thus, the author refers to the certain problematic aspects of this phenomenon, primarily the tendency of the institutional predominance of this type of philosophy over other important currents of modern philosophy. Furthermore, the author also points to properties of analytic philosophy, such are the inclination to conceptual scholasticism as well as to scientism, which may well be questioned. This critical observation is then completed by the advocacy of a consistent respect for the diversity of philosophical thought – both in research and in teaching.