@VesselOfSpirit Yet the fact that it is, in fact, bad does not particularly help.
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@Meaningness but putting it that way obscures that everyone has different, incompatible reasons for thinking so1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit which seem incompatible? (Something can be genuinely bad in multiple ways…)8 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness OH i just now realized you were asking which seem incompatible instead of questioningly adding "which seem incompatible"3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness of course, i don't know that that is your reason for thinking philosophy is bad. maybe you have more meta, structural reasons1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit Well the most common critique from within the field is that it gets side-tracked into fashionable technical problems,2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit , ignoring the Big Issues. However, I also think it has the wrong ideas about which are the Big Issues.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit E.g., I think deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics are all answers to a wrong question about ethics.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit Also: any field is defined by what constitutes a publishable result. The 2 current ϕ schools have 2 criteria that both suck.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness do you think these objections are more true of philosophy than other fields?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@VesselOfSpirit Than *some* other field, sure. Philosophy isn’t uniquely bad, though!
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