(Smith, 2014)
In his essay “Analytic Philosophy is Ending Not With a Bang But a Whimper,” Robert Hanna argues that first, Analytic philosophy as originally conceived, has been dead since the early 1950s, and actually has no future whatsoever, and second, Kant’s theoretical philosophy is actually significantly closer in content and methodology to classical Analytic philosophy, than post-classical Analytic philosophy is. This is doubly ironic. For not only does Analytic philosophy itself actually have no future whatsoever, but also whatever was worth saving from the wreckage of Analytic philosophy—i.e., the analytic-synthetic distinction (now supplemented by an intelligible and defensible theory of synthetic a priori necessary truth and knowledge), and the thesis that analytic a priori necessary truth and knowledge are genuine kinds of a priori necessary truth and knowledge (even if not the only kinds of genuine a priori necessary truth and knowledge)—is already preserved in contemporary and future-oriented Kantian philosophy.
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