«Holy War Can’t Carry Double»: On the Border Between Analytical and Continental Philosophy

Abstract

The article critically analyses the most popular approaches to the history of analytic philosophy (doctrinal, methodological, genealogical, thematic, etc.). Each of these approaches has its own shortcomings and, as a consequence, does not provide a satisfactory answer to the question «What is analytic philosophy?». As an alternative, it proposes a quantitative approach that allows the construction and study of co-citation models of objects of the so-called documentary universe. In the optics of this approach, analytic philosophy is an example of a normal science with a soft paradigm that defines the structure of analytic philosophy not at the level of its doctrine or method, but at the level of the organization its research practices. Such a structural property of the analytic philosophy, as an object of the documentary universe, can provide a clear and unambiguous demarcation criterion separating it from all other philosophical traditions.