My impression is that academic philosophy has historically produced a lot of good deconfusion work in metaethics (e.g. this and this), as well as some really neat negative results like the logical empiricists’ failed attempt to construct a language in which verbal propositions could be cached out/analyzed in terms of logic or set theory in a way similar to how one can cache out/analyze Python in terms of machine code. In recent times there’s been a lot of (in my opinion) great academic philosophy done at FHI.
I would name the following:
Modern logic (Gottlob Frege)
Master/slave morality (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Historical critique of power/knowledge systems (Michel Foucault)
Phenomenology (Edmund Husserl)
Language games (Lugwig Wittgenstein)
Inauthenticity/bad faith (Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir)
Performativity (John Austin and Judith Butler)
My impression is that academic philosophy has historically produced a lot of good deconfusion work in metaethics (e.g. this and this), as well as some really neat negative results like the logical empiricists’ failed attempt to construct a language in which verbal propositions could be cached out/analyzed in terms of logic or set theory in a way similar to how one can cache out/analyze Python in terms of machine code. In recent times there’s been a lot of (in my opinion) great academic philosophy done at FHI.
Those are all pretty good. :)