The language of publication of 'analytic' philosophy.
| Autor | Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo |
| Cargo | Artículo en inglés |
RESUMEN: En esta nota argumento que la investigación en filosofía analítica en sentido amplio debería publicarse exclusivamente en inglés. Doy razones de por qué debe ser así y defiendo la tesis en contra de trece objeciones.
PALABRAS CLAVE: filosofía analítica en sentido amplio, inglés, investigación, publicaciones, países no anglófonos
SUMMARY: This note argues that research in analytical philosophy broadly conceived should be published exclusively in English. Reasons are given for this and the thesis is defended against thirteen objections.
KEY WORDS: analytic philosophy broadly conceived, English, research, publications, non-English speaking countries
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It is clear that more philosophy is published in English than any other language at the moment, that this has been so for several decades now, and that the trend is likely to continue. It is also true that more and more philosophers around the world read philosophy in English. Nevertheless it is a fact that many philosophers from non-English speaking countries, including philosophers who read, speak, and write English, persist in publishing original work in their native languages. In particular, what motivates me to write this note is that there are many philosophers producing high quality work in what I shall call analytic philosophy broadly conceived who publish such work in languages other than English.
The thesis I shall argue for in this brief note is that original work of research in analytic philosophy broadly conceived should nowadays be published exclusively in English. Publishing such work in English is very valuable, but publishing it in languages other than English is of little or no value.
This thesis is not yet as clear as it should be, since analytic philosophy broadly conceived has not been defined. It is clear that the label "analytic philosophy", used to designate a philosophical movement, is now obsolete and very little of contemporary philosophy would be correctly classified as such. Some might think that a better label for the kind of philosophy I have in mind would be "Anglo-American philosophy", but I think this name is rather inadequate. For some of the early heroes of this kind of philosophy, like Frege, were not Anglo-American. Furthermore, nowadays there is a lot of this kind of philosophy done in countries other than England (or the UK more generally) and the USA and a lot of it is done in languages other than English.
Nevertheless there is a way of characterizing what I am calling analytic philosophy broadly conceived. This is the kind of philosophy that is typically published in journals like Mind, Analysis, The Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Noûs, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Studies. This gives a reasonable idea of what I mean by analytic philosophy broadly conceived--at least it gives a reasonable idea of what I have in mind given the aim of this note. (1) (Henceforth I shall refer simply to it just as "analytic philosophy".)
There are different reasons, I think, why such philosophers continue to publish original research in analytic philosophy in their native languages. Sometimes it is because those philosophers, although they read and discuss philosophy published in English, do not network with those philosophers who publish in English, but network almost exclusively with philosophers from their own countries. Sometimes it is because of lack of confidence or insufficient skill in written English. Sometimes, and I suspect this is the most common...
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