By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When Philosophy Lost Its Way
Robert Frodeman, Adam Briggle, New York Times, 2016/03/22
My central disappointment with philosophy was with what it had become as an academic enterprise. "Philosophic activity devolved into a contest to prove just how clever one can be in creating or destroying arguments." I can think of more than a few such people - Jerry Fodor, David K. Lewis - who seem to think of it as some sort of scholarly gamesmanship. More...