One of the great cantankerous essayists of our era, the public philosopher @jehsmith , inveighs against parenthood and fun, among other things.https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2019/11/against-public-philosophy.html …
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... I would say that, if I am not, then this only demonstrates how the field's exclusionary mechanisms work. "He sounds a bit like a Martian? He must not be one of us." I would like to see a philosophy field where, at least sometimes, sounding like a Martian serves as...
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... incentive to listen more closely, not to marshal sociology in order to process the apparent foreignness of what is being said.
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I think you don’t understand the genuine hostility a lot of analytic philosophers have for public work.
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Ah, ok, this was the last point I meant to address, and what I wanted to say is: of course I do! I experience the hostility myself. I have first-hand certainty of it. That said, for complex economic reasons, I've noticed, and I think you must have noticed, that very recently...
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