Abstract

Our main task in this symposium, I take it, is to compare and contrast two current philosophical styles, the phenomenological and the linguistic or analytic. Professor Spiegelberg has wisely chosen to illustrate his favored style by treating a standard philosophical topic, the nature of the ego or self, phenomenologically, besides talking about this manner of treatment. I believe I am to represent the analysts, and I propose to follow Professor Spiegelberg’s lead in doing so. That is, I shall illustrate an analytic method of philosophizing by making some substantive remarks about a topic at least related to Professor Spiegelberg’s, as well as say some things about the analytic method.