02 July 2009
philosophy's peepshow
From an editor who would know:
'The problem with analytic work, I've found, is not that it deals with exclusively with small problem and pulls out the logical pincers to deal with this toothache of a world - it is that the thinking is so godawful bad even on the logical level. It is the inability to go at things from more than one peephole of an angle - and the idea that you 'win' by showing your particular peephole is better than a peephole that was drilled in 'Mind' by some other analytic - that makes these things so damn depressing. And the peephole artists all defend these cliches! If they'd only take a ride on the wild side just once - defend solipsism, or nihilism, or relativism - but it is all just the most tiresome middle class views that await one at the end of the peephole.'
