Don't start with the Greeks, start with this.

Mmmm I too like to be completely lost at every reference to works, concepts and philosophers that a book references.

>poststructural pragmatism

WEW

>>9692822
Can a true American stan for Canadian Kermit while eschewing pragmatism? More a question for the nationalist-oriented /lit/izens.

>>9692833
>Can a true American stan for Canadian Kermit while eschewing pragmatism?

What does this sentence mean?

No but seriously Rorty "redpills" (metaphor becoming literal?) the history of western philosophy for those of us who share his "vocabulary". The main characters of the book are Nietzsche, Heidegger, Proust, Orwell, Nabokov, Dickens, Wittgenstein, Davidson, Freud, Hegel, Kant, and Bloom.

grad students hate this man

>>9693198
Why

What's the deal with Rorty anyway?

>>9693271
he tells them its not a worthwhile pursuit

>>9692800
atleast start with like moderns? descartes? if not interested maybe hume then kant? idk

>>9693301
Imagine an analytic philosopher who revered the history of philosophy+literature in place of science and mathematics and also actually took Wittgenstein's advice instead of subtracting the practical heart of his work.

>Big Boys of English Speaking academia
>Singer
The philosophical equivalent of Judge Judy, Singer's self-contradictory pap ("abortion and infanticide are acceptable because these immature humans are incapable or rational preference" vs. "rationality is not a requirement for ethical conduct. Any irrational being will avoid pain, which is why cruelty to animals is unethical", which are flatly contradictory positions). Makes money by writing books that tell Liberals 'doing what you want is A-OK"
A buffoon.
>Chomsky
A decent linguist, his work in every other field is no more (or less) than self-serving rent seeking which he publicly admits that he, himself, does not believe.
Darn good at making a buck of gullible college students, but (unless you are speaking of linguistics, where he is very good) not a big academic.
>Dawkins
A mediocre-at-best scientist who will leave exactly zero mark on actual science, he became popular as a writer of PopSci books. When that income source dried up (because his theories were soundly thrashed by scientists) he switched to a series of popular books trashing what he thinks religious people might believe.
Never was a great thinker, never will be.
>Rorty
A man who counted on his readers having never heard of Gorgias, Rorty took facile rhetoric, relabeled it neopragmatism, and sold it like snake oil.
>Chalmers
About time an actual academic appeared. although, to be fair, while he does a fine job of reminding everyone of the hard problem, he has no answers. Which is no one's fault.
>Dennett
Refuses to use proper terms, mainly to hide that, deep down, he he knows any clear statement of his theories leads to eye-rolling
Not a serious academic.
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This list is a list of "People that stupid people think are smart"

>>9693672
The reality is the "big boys," are largely unknown and/or unmentioned.

Even in academia, if it's mainstream, it probably sucks.

>>9693672
Rorty and Dennett are infinitely more valuable to recent philosophy than David "state-of-the-debate middle-of-the-road milquetoast-property-dualism panpsychism-is-a-neat-idea-I-guess whoa-what-if-video-games-are-real" Chalmers

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>>9693672
>>Singer
>The philosophical equivalent of Judge Judy

>>9693746
>agreeing with ironic bait
Mate, I have bad news

>>9693809
If you think that's ironic bait, I have bad news for you...

>>9693816
If you didn't check the archive, I have bad news for you...again

>>9692833
>>9692881
I still want to know what on earth this is supposed to mean.

>>9692800
trivia: Rorty's wife (Amelie Rorty) was one of the greatest Aristotelian/Platonic critics of the 20th century, her essays are brilliant

there's never enough discussion of rorty here.

there's a nice documentary about rorty where he cries whilst discussing nabokov

>>9695461
What's the name of documentary?

>>9695478
might have been https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86K3VXKZSec

but it might not

>>9695436
she's not dead yet

>>9692800
>mfw this was my first philosophy book

>>9692800
>solidarity
leftist beta cuck

>>9693672
100% accurate

good post, my man

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where does one start with rorty, family. pls respond nicely.

>>9695415
Can a true American be an active fanboy/girl of Jordan Peterson while eschewing (philosophical) pragmatism?

>>9695498
samefaggotry

>>9695518
Interesting. Makes one wonder.

>>9695513
With OP

>>9693672
Lol can you link something about Chomsky being full of shit?

>>9693672
>what liberals want to do is to donate almost all their money to effective charities

>>9695878
If you can't find something about this then I feel you wouldn't believe your eyes if you saw his shit exposed.

>>9696687
"It's not my job to educate you!" Some epic shit my fellow tumblrer.

>>9692833
I feel like you know the secrets of the universe but can only tell us them by way of Delphic riddles

bumping for the amusement that is triggered leftists.

>>9697287
Have fun being triggered family.

>>9695518
JBP considers himself a quasi pragmatist

>>9692814
fpbp

>>9693330
Why do that? Continentals keep taking literature into their best works AND are making very interesting approaches to contemporary science without letting behind the work done.

I am really sorry analytics have such a narrow perspective on arts and history.