Rationality Quotes June 2012

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

So, does this mean that you agree with my assessment of philosophy in the original comment (currently downvoted to -10)?

Well, I don't have a low opinion of my chosen profession: I'm very happy with what I do. But I do have a low opinion of some philosophers and some philosophical work, along with a high opinion of some others.

My original reply was just intended to point out that a) the analytic/continental divide is no longer a significant part of the academic philosophical world, and b) that you don't have good reasons to compare philosophy to an academic science (or to a form of art).

As to how we should think of philosophy, I think we have an easy way to approach the que... (read more)

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