On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
I don't have much to add to Leiter's comment below the posted poll
results. I will say, leaving aside the obvious self-selecting bias
against French philosophy, that I find it mind-boggling that anybody
but maybe -- maybe -- Wittgenstein beats Hegel. I would disagree on
LW, but it seems to this humble wannabe that his is the only other
plausible case to be made.
I gave Martin H the #1 spot in my ranking partly because I am sick of
the Nazi-card waving goons, but in fairness, the #1 spot undoubtedly
belongs to Bertrand Russell (my #2). A more coherent and less oedipal
Wittgenstein might have come close, perhaps, but given that he never
really explained his Cambridge lectures and adequately responded to
the issues raised by Turing, he falls behind Frege and Quine, in my
list.
--ravi, humble wannabe ;-)
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