It looks like I’m an analytic philosopher, after all
Sometimes I try to deny my nature, but then Chris goes and posts about a conversation in which someone says something silly. And it turns out I used the silly bit as a major premise myself just last week. Oy.
posted on Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 1:27 pm
“I used the silly bit as a major premise myself….”
Does that make the argument a sillygism?
Okay, that was horrible.
God in The Simpsons Rapture (I think?) episode was great. As was his son sitting on a swing set, looking depressed.
I apologize for having recently called you an analytic philosopher. Not-very-bright laypeople assume that anyone who deploys the vocabulary must be a native speaker. (Myself, I’ve been assumed to be a gay Mormon scholar into water sports.)
So what you’re saying then is you’re actually Jewish…?
No no, the analytic philosopher thing was fine. I don’t really mind being called an analytic philosopher. I am a native speaker, more or less. I’m, like, philosophically bisexual. AC/DC. I go both ways. So naturally everyone assumes I’m Jewish.
But “analytic philosophy” does not exist. Ergo, “Holbo” is the name of a fictional character.
Some Slovaks are Jewish, but not Holbo. Kotsko isn’t Jewish either.
I wish that Leiter would tell me the correct name of all that stuff I can’t stand. It’s inconvenient to spend my life hating inarticulately without any reference.
It all depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
Bill Clinton was an analytic philosopher? Who knew?
No, he was a philosopher. There’s no such thing as analytic philosophy, dummy.
Having recently read a (pretty good) book that argues that there is no such thing as Continental philosophy, shouldn’t we just cut to the chase, agree that there’s no such thing as philosophy, and be done with it?
“there is no such thing as Continental philosophy….”
Yes, only incontinental philosophy. (Sorry—I just couldn’t stop myself.)
… agree that there’s no such thing as philosophy, and be done with it?
– Lee Rudolph“agree that there’s no such thing as philosophy”
A most interesting philosophy…