Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2014
The Value of Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Special 20th Anniversary Issue
Joe Frank Jones, III
Pages 77-91
Analysis, Phenomenology and the Travails of Ontology
This essay suggests loosening pedagogical boundaries in order to prepare children for useful philosophical reflection, particularly ontological boundaries. The argument for this is that the analytic-contmental distinction is muddier than most realize. I explain analytical developments in logic from 1884 to 1931 in a way designed to show there should be no real distinction between analytic and Contmental philosophy. I suggest this explanation provides sufficient support for dismissing ontological boundaries in certain philosophical contexts as well as in early philosophical education.