tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246270227533841196.post7875180290129465430..comments2023-04-03T16:04:11.378+03:00Comments on Language is things we do: On the importance or unimportance of philosophyLars Hertzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840441217838499844noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246270227533841196.post-29069617826410339322012-10-27T09:27:31.516+03:002012-10-27T09:27:31.516+03:00Nice analogy! I agree that philosophy is too wide ...Nice analogy! I agree that philosophy is too wide an enterprise for any summary judgment about its current state to make sense. I think there are philosophers (not necessarily those who are actually in the limelight) who have something to say that might be worth listening to by those outside academic philosophy. Just for an example, I'd like to mention Pär Segerdahl's ethics blog: http://ethicsblog.crb.uu.se/ . And then there are those who seem content to take part in a game of cleverness with their colleagues. (The danger of working in a big philosophy department is that you end up believing that the whole world is made up of your fellow philosophers.)<br /><br />For better *and* worse, philosophy is becoming more and more professionalized. This, of course, is a fate it shares with the other humanities. Lars Hertzberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840441217838499844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246270227533841196.post-12080301630810258902012-10-27T09:21:24.973+03:002012-10-27T09:21:24.973+03:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lars Hertzberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840441217838499844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246270227533841196.post-71893996521852065372012-10-27T00:34:39.630+03:002012-10-27T00:34:39.630+03:00True. But hasn't someone pointed out (on that ...True. But hasn't someone pointed out (on that thread or in a response elsewhere) that this kind of attention to minutiae isn't new? Is the problem also one of looking at this part--call it "Minor Part"--of philosophy and taking it to be the whole? Not that I disagree that we could cut off "Minor Part" and philosophy would still exist, whatever we call the remaining bit... (And, to get away from the joke, I agree that in cases like that, language seems to have gone on holiday.)Matthew Pianaltohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380038537888895216noreply@blogger.com