[OFF-TOPIC] How Journal Capture Led to the Dominance of Analytic Philosophy in the U.S. - Daily Nous

[Yuri Rodrigues]

"[...] analytic philosophy came to dominate American philosophy partly by analytical philosophers taking control of key institutions within academic philosophy and using these to promote analytic philosophy, and that crucial steps in the direction of such control occurred before 1950. The reason for the growing dominance of analytic philosophy appears to have been, at least in part, the suppression, by institutional means, of existing diversity and, possibly, the exploitation of American pluralism. The dominance of analytic philosophy was not just a matter of an inherent affinity of American philosophy for analytic philosophy, good arguments, more cogently stated doctrines or the lack of alternatives."

http://dailynous.com/2017/01/24/journal-capture-led-dominance-analytic-philosophy-u-s/