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This I admit happily. The only question is whether or not my intemperance is justified. Consider how absurd it would be for a professor of physics to admit that his opinion regarding a problem in physics would be different if he had attended a different graduate school.
Imagine I had said "Soviet communism has nothing whatever to do with feeding the people and everything to do with status-seeking, coalition games, and power politics". You could as easily complain that soviet communists do have a professional interest in feeding the people, even if they were doing it badly, and that my diagnosis was factually wrong.
It's a weird thing for anyone to admit; the epistemologist is just in a particularly awkward position. I spoke of philosophy because that's what I have experience with; but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that similar trends of students following teachers hold in other disciplines.