At 10:27 PM 12/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
Jim asks whether the "method" of analytical philosophy is to blame. I am not
sure there is a "method": but this goes back to Jim's and my disagreement
about method in lots of contexts. AP emphasizes logic, but logic doesn't
necessarily make you a narrow
Okay, we agree in practice. _In practice_, AP's method involves
discouragement of scholarship as Justin defines it here. [BTW, I like the
typo, the spelling of "culkture," though maybe "kultur" would be more
appropriate.]
Of course we could drop the "method involves" and have a sentence
2000 9:27 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:6054] Re: Re: Have You Read All These Books?
Of course I think philosophers (of all people) ought to be cultured people
of
wide curiosity. However, it's a fact that in high-powered reserach
institutions and places that aspire to be like those places, they are
most
L:6065] Re: Re: Re: Have You Read All These Books?
The _official_ or desired method of AP is logic? then what distinguished
it
from Aristotle? of from any other school of philosophy (except maybe post
modernism)? haven't almost all philosophers since Aristotle thought that
formal logic was
"Ken Hanly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are different types of analytical philosophy. . . .
Sure, but, I wasn't trying to give a history or a typology. I was just trying to
explain why the culture of APis anti-intellectual and hostile to humanistic
cultivation. Also, incidentally, to
Justin writes:
My experience of academia is that philosophy professors are not
intellectuals. My ex-colleagues at Ohio State were (are) not readers or
people of wide culture, or even much curiosity. They were mostly narrow
technicians who had found a little groove they were good at, generally
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/11/00 02:03PM
Justin writes:
My experience of academia is that philosophy professors are not
intellectuals. My ex-colleagues at Ohio State were (are) not readers or
people of wide culture, or even much curiosity. They were mostly narrow
technicians who had found a
Of course I think philosophers (of all people) ought to be cultured people of
wide curiosity. However, it's a fact that in high-powered reserach
institutions and places that aspire to be like those places, they are mostly
not. I don't think philosophers are unique here: we see a general
At 10:27 PM 12/11/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course I think philosophers (of all people) ought to be cultured people of
wide curiosity. However, it's a fact that in high-powered reserach
institutions and places that aspire to be like those places, they are mostly
not. I don't think
