Rex Kerr
Aug 29, 2022

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Sure, but we can evaluate these points and pretty quickly conclude that they're mostly wrong.

Almost everything that either group raised is identifying an already-known problem (e.g. bias) with already-well-established solutions (e.g. focus on argument, not the individual); or makes a suggestion to do something that is already well-known to be a bad idea (e.g. focus on anecdote and narrative instead of argument and evidence).

That historically we did a bad job training anyone other than white men to be analytic philosophers doesn't say that the methods of analytic philosophy are broken--it just says that our system for teaching was broken.

It might also be the case that the methods of analytic philosophy are unhelpful, but not for this reason.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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