In my post on leaving philosophy, I said that “I think philosophy gets even fewer real results than the meager results that philosophers have sometimes claimed,” linking to the Amazon page for What Philosophers Know, by Notre Dame professor Gary Gutting. As an explanation for my comment, I’m going to do a three-part blog review [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Ignorance: Comparing Dawkins and Plantinga
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 29, 2010
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A good chunk of my blogging over the next few weeks will be following up my post on leaving philosophy for neuroscience, particularly my comment about the worthwhileness of philosophy. Among other things, I’m planning on doing a (likely multi-part) review of Gary Gutting’s book What Philosophers Know, which I had mentioned in the previous [...]
The frightening cowardice of US corporations on Wikileaks (also: when Torrenting becomes a political act)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 7, 2010
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Under pressure from the US government, a growing number of US Corporations are refusing to have anything to do with WikiLeaks on the dubious rationale that it is a criminal organization. As Glenn Greenwald has pointed out, this is nonsense unless you also think that the New York Times, which has also been publishing the [...]
Leaving philosophy
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 2, 2010
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It’s official: At the end of the semester, I’m leaving the philosophy program at Notre Dame. I’m going back to UW-Madison as a special student, to prepare for applying to graduate school in neuroscience. To some of my friends and almost all readers of this blog, this will sound like something out of left field. [...]