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Fashionable Nihilism: Critique of Analytic Philosophy |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton'>danieleaton</a>
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Monday, 28 October 2002 21:46 |
Book: Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy, Bruce Wilshire
(1) David Hoekema
, Calvin College, review of Bruce Wishire's book
"The analytic mode of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, on his view, represents a disastrous marriage of scientific positivism and philosophical myopia that has done irreparable damage to undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy, hence to the vitality and character of North American scholarship and thought in general."
(2) Brian Leiter, U. of Texas, reply to Hoekema
"We are now living in a "golden age" of scholarship on Continental philosophy, almost all of which is produced by philosophers who are - again, in the stylistic sense - "analytic"."
(3) David Hoekema
,Calvin College, reply to Leiter
"to infer from these two facts that SPEP harbors a host of "mediocre academics . . . [hiding] behind the fig leaf of ‘Continental philosophy’" is to invoke two hidden premises: (1) that philosophers are wiser than their colleagues in other disciplines and (2) that philosophers employed or trained at the other 50 or 60 doctoral programs are wiser than those associated with the suspect 20."
(4) Bruce Wilshire
Rutgers University, reply to Leiter
"...most philosophers who can roughly be classified as "analytic" do stem in fact from the phenomenalist tradition initiated by Descartes and developed by the British Empiricists. I think that most such philosophers have been unable to distinguish phenomenalism from phenomenology-a crucial distinction. As Charles Peirce argued, phenomenology (what he termed phaneroscopy), is the first job of philosophy."
(5) Brian Leiter, U. of Texas, reply to Wilshire and Hoekema
"Since hardly anyone reads Professor Wilshire's books, however, it occurs to me most readers will not realize how atypical Professor Wilshire's reply is from his standard modus operandi. More representative is his favorite denunciation of the PGR as "fatuous bullshit" (see The Primal Roots of American Philosophy [2000]),"
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