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64 Post author: lukeprog 09 March 2011 09:17PM

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Comment author: komponisto 10 March 2011 10:11:41PM 10 points [-]

How much academic philosophy have you personally read?

I've read a fair amount, and I don't find it particularly abstruse. This includes not only quasi-popular books by the highest-status practitioners like Dennett and Chalmers but also ordinary journal papers by professors at my undergraduate institution.

It might be worth taking a look at Chalmers' philosophy of mind anthology if you haven't already.

Comment author: lukeprog 11 March 2011 02:18:59AM 5 points [-]

Agree with your point, though I wouldn't say the extremely diverse set of essays in Chalmers' compilation are a shining example of philosophical clarity. I would recommend something like Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment or Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account.

Comment author: komponisto 11 March 2011 06:12:39AM 2 points [-]

I wouldn't say the extremely diverse set of essays in Chalmers' compilation are a shining example of philosophical clarity

Oh, certainly not -- it's a sampler, and all levels of clarity and confusion present in the field are represented. I cited it to show the typical writing style of papers in philosophy (over the years, since as I recall it starts with Descartes!).