Comments on: It looks like I’m an analytic philosopher, after all http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 06:52:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mcd http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218780 mcd Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:16:23 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218780 "agree that there’s no such thing as philosophy" A most interesting philosophy... “agree that there’s no such thing as philosophy”

A most interesting philosophy…

]]> By: JP Stormcrow http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218773 JP Stormcrow Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:57:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218773 <i>... agree that there’s no such thing as philosophy, and be done with it?</i> <blockquote>of that whereof we cannot squeak, we mice be silent</blockquote> - Lee Rudolph … agree that there’s no such thing as philosophy, and be done with it?

of that whereof we cannot squeak, we mice be silent

– Lee Rudolph ]]> By: Drake http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218762 Drake Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:11:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218762 "there is no such thing as Continental philosophy...." Yes, only incontinental philosophy. (Sorry -- I just couldn't <i>stop myself</i>.) “there is no such thing as Continental philosophy….”

Yes, only incontinental philosophy. (Sorry—I just couldn’t stop myself.)

]]> By: Ben Alpers http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218754 Ben Alpers Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:48:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218754 Having recently read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Continental-Philosophy-Simon-Glendinning/dp/0748624716/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195667180&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">a (pretty good) book that argues that there is no such thing as Continental philosophy</a>, shouldn't we just cut to the chase, agree that there's no such thing as philosophy, and be done with it? 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?

]]> By: John Emerson http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218745 John Emerson Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:46:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218745 No, he was a <i>philosopher</i>. There's no such thing as analytic philosophy, dummy. No, he was a philosopher. There’s no such thing as analytic philosophy, dummy.

]]> By: Praisegod Barebones http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218742 Praisegod Barebones Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:37:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218742 Bill Clinton was an analytic philosopher? Who knew? Bill Clinton was an analytic philosopher? Who knew?

]]> By: mcd http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218738 mcd Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:57:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218738 It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is. It all depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

]]> By: John Emerson http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218732 John Emerson Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:15:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218732 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. 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.

]]> By: John Emerson http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218730 John Emerson Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:14:13 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218730 Some Slovaks are Jewish, but not Holbo. Kotsko isn't Jewish either. Some Slovaks are Jewish, but not Holbo. Kotsko isn’t Jewish either.

]]> By: engels http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218724 engels Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:59:11 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218724 But "analytic philosophy" <a href="http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/what_is_analyti.html" rel="nofollow">does not exist</a>. Ergo, "Holbo" is the name of a fictional character. But “analytic philosophy” does not exist. Ergo, “Holbo” is the name of a fictional character.

]]> By: John Holbo http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218722 John Holbo Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:43:58 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218722 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. 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.

]]> By: Ray Davis http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218719 Ray Davis Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:38:03 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218719 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...? 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…?

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218715 abb1 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:24:11 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218715 God in The Simpsons Rapture (I think?) episode was great. As was his son sitting on a swing set, looking depressed. God in The Simpsons Rapture (I think?) episode was great. As was his son sitting on a swing set, looking depressed.

]]> By: Drake http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218714 Drake Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:20:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218714 Okay, that was horrible. Okay, that was horrible.

]]> By: Drake http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-218712 Drake Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:20:36 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/it-looks-like-im-an-analytic-philosopher-after-all/#comment-218712 "I used the silly bit as a major premise myself...." Does that make the argument a sillygism? “I used the silly bit as a major premise myself….”

Does that make the argument a sillygism?

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