Big thank to the blogger and thinker Brian Leiter of America for doing his bit for the Pilos!!:
The strangest "metablog" of all
- See more at: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/#sthash.TD7Z4vKQ.dpuf
If only every one would do the same!!!!
Especially noteworthy is Brian apparently not holdinga grudge for being outed for looking a bit like a Koala in an infamous update to 'Going online -Aristotle' post. Thanks so much Brian!!
COMING SOON - ANOTHER POEM FOR MY FATHER AND MORE INFO ABOUT PLATO"S GENIUNELY IMPRESSIVE WRITING ABILITY
Stay tuned to Leiter Reports for news about the philosophy profession: where were headed, what do do about it, and why. - The Webmaster, December 11, 2015.
Whenever you see an argument, no matter who made it up or when, there's one thing you ave to ask: is it valid? And are the premises true? If so to both, then it is sound and you can happily believe the conclusion. When I learned this skill in philosophy, I was dumbfounded. So many new truths were opened up, because I could make arguments. Then after years of philosophy, I had all the beliefs I needed and was ready to start publishing! I'm still at it, all these years later! I think there's a bright future ahead.
ReplyDeleteGot a new modal logic I'm working on called S9. In this system it's impossible to prove anything, but it's also impossible to fail. It's based on some side comments in Timothy Williamson's new book and I have been helped to develop it by a coterie of moal logicians. I wish it were not the case that it's not possible to come up with a better system, because then we'd do that one too! There are lots of applications to philosophy. We can show that Frege's puzzle is stupid, and that everyone who beats a donkey does so only three times, if they own it. Paradoxes in moral theory may also be resolvable by means of S9: on the train tracks trying to decide whether to push a fat man? So am I. And by S9, there's nothing we can do about it!
ReplyDeleteHaha, of course this is a joke. A little bit of philosophy humour for the middle of your week's!
Not funny. Reading books and papers in philosophy I am struck by the peurile attempts to lighten the mood by half underdeveloped men and sometimes women when they shoudl be getting out into the real word ingaging with the concerns tha tpeople really have, usiong all that brain power. I think that the humor is just a way of distracting ourselves from what is wrong with our profession anbd what we have to do about it. So tell me moe about S9 when all that's finisehd. Maybe then I will laugh. Or maybe not!
DeleteKeep up the good work!!! Impossible to fail is not for the feint hearted or those who never cry. But logic is about possibility anyway, even if you don't do any of the esses. I might be going out on a limb here and I don't want to be too personal but I Sherlock-Holmes-deduce that you are not tenured or are very ambitious and want to reach the towering heights of this profession. Can you guess why?
DeleteThanks heaps for that. I love doing logic whenever POSSIBLE. S1, S2, predicates, propositions... it's all great. Please come here and be as personal as you like. I am not tenured and I am ambitious as a philosopher but not necessarily wanting to be an academic, so I don't know... I want to reach the towering heights of philosophy in some sense, I'll give you that. I bet it's nice up there and then if everyone digs my stuff I'll feel really good about it. And I think I've got some great ideas about how to improve our thinking and ideas, and learning how to solve old traditional puzzles by learning more about how they really work. And no I can't guess why!!!!! Please do tell.
DeleteP.S. I also want to be a dream boyfriend one day
DeleteWe have these blogs. We have people of good will in the profession. We have so many great topics, amazing talent, and solid curricula. So when is philosophy going to rise out of the doldrums and come into its own as a vehicle for real progress and change? When I was a child I knew that ideas had power, now I've been on the market three times and all my students hate me. I think this is about the worst it could be, and yet I still have hope. Philosophy was once great, and maybe it still is. If I get a Wordpress document together, is anyone willing to chime in and sign it? We could then send it to Berit Brogaard and Graham Harman. I bet they won't like it, but by the same token they won't get a say. We won't be stopped so easily.
ReplyDeleteOn a brighter note, I just got hired to teach Ethics and the Simpsons next semester! At least that will seem relevant to my small Midwestern students.
Thirty new students cam in the door to me today, crying because they could not understand philosophy. I told them 'Calm down, begin with the simple arguments and thinkers, and then you'll be building up castles of philosophical logic in no time!' They're really happy now and one of them even knows how to use propositions! This is the kinda stuff that makes it all worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteYeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea- boi! Those formuluhz sure are well-formed.
ReplyDeleteHi Big Red!! My top five papers in philosophy are Nietzche, Kierkegaard, Lewis, Prawitz and Katherine Hawley.
DeleteMereology is a big part of philosophy,
ReplyDeleteWe all know epistemology is as well,
Philosophy of language I could talk about forever,
I've lost count of the interesting issues in philosophy of mathematics,
Ethics is really really good,
But metaphysics - basically I couldn't be bothered.
Bit of philosophy humour for the day! Now back to work guys haha!
Thankz.... :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe want to read :
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