Old Joke: PSYCHOLOGIST: A man looking in a dark basement for a black cat. PSYCHIATRIST: A blind man looking in a dark basement for a black cat.
PHILOSOPHER: A blind man looking in a pitch black basement for a black cat tht isn't there. ________________________________________ From: Christopher D. Green [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 3:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] What Is a Philosopher? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com An interesting perambulation by philosopher Simon Crtichley... if you have the time. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/what-is-a-philosopher/?src=me&ref=general I thought it bore an interesting relationship to our earlier discussion of intellectuals and liberalism. If you take the term "philosopher" literally -- a lover of wisdom -- then it applies as much to other humanists and to scientists as much as to that particular discipline that now goes by the name. (And to whomever it was that sneered a couple of weeks ago "Do scholars of the humanities *really* call themselves humanists?" yes they do, and they did long before the term was adopted by late 20th-century skeptics and atheists. You will find a long literature on the distinction between Medieval Humanism and Renaissance Humanism.) Chris PAUL K. BRANDON [email protected] Psychology Dept (emeritus) Minnesota State University, Mankato http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2690 or send a blank email to leave-2690-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
