Is analytical philosophy suffering a slow death?

A few years ago, while I was pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, the philosopher Liam Kofi Bright wrote a provocative blog post titled The End of Analytic Philosophy. It painted a bleak and rather depressing picture of the field and its capacity to make progress.

Unsurprisingly, it caused, to put it mildly, a fair amount of controversy. While many argued against his pessimistic view of the field, my agreements and disagreements were largely the inverse of those of most of his critics. Like Bright, I share a negative view on the prospects of analytic philosophy. Yet, I did not share his bleak outlook that philosophy itself was doomed. Unlike him, I strongly disagreed with his assessment that there is “no successor paradigm” that could replace analytic philosophy. This successor paradigm is naturalized philosophy, and I found myself surprised that Bright did........

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