Risto_Saarelma comments on Hard philosophy problems to test people's intelligence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 16 February 2012 08:42:40AM 2 points [-]

Beyond the obvious signaling opportunity of saying that creationists are the worst people ever, I'm not having an easy time figuring out which way the ranking should go between a celebrity who appears to be totally apathetic towards philosophy and a creationist apologist who is enthusiastically doing very bad philosophy.

I also wonder how much agreement there would be if we tried to establish the ranking between Richard Dawkins and Jerry Fodor.

Comment author: J_Taylor 18 February 2012 02:41:18AM 0 points [-]

I do not really agree with Fodor on most issues, but Jerry Fodor(2010) is very different from Jerry Fodor(1978).