I’ve written before about the relationship between content and tone, but there’s an angle I didn’t cover there: when people respond to criticisms of their content by saying “he shouldn’t complain about my tone because…” For example, here’s Ed Feser: Rosenhouse has a helluva nerve complaining about my aggressive tone. In the post that began [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Is studying philosophy beneficial?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 22, 2011
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From xkcd: Guy: “I used to think correlation implied causation. Then I took a statistics class. Now I don’t. Girl: Sounds like the class helped. Guy: Well, maybe. The guy’s worry in this comic sounds silly, but it’s actually a fairly good depiction of how I feel whenever someone asks/tells me, “You have a lot [...]
So I bought Edward Feser’s Aquinas (a non-review)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 18, 2011
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Recently, Edward Feser wrote a long blog post calling Jerry Coyne “unserious” and telling Coyne to read Feser’s book Aquinas. This prompted me to go buy Feser’s book off Amazon, but after my initial look at it, I don’t think I’ll be finishing it. The few sections I’ve read basically try to show that certain [...]
Seduced by sophistication (follow up to “Philosophy is dysfunctional”)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 14, 2011
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Below is the post I was talking about when I talked about doing a follow up to “Philosophy is dysfunctional.” It may not be quite what you expected though, since it’s more personal, and not really about academic philosophy (at least not specifically). If you want more comments on academic philosophy specifically, you should probably [...]
Against “feminism”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 8, 2011
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Luke Muehlhauser tells a story: I remember the day I first heard the word “feminism.” I was pretty old; maybe 13. I asked, “Mom, what does feminism mean?” My mom said something like, “It’s the view that women should have the same rights as men do.” I looked at her, perplexed. “They have a word [...]