Top o’ the Stack.
On the dropping of names of philosophers one hasn’t read.
You can’t call me narrow in my interests. (Well, you can, but you would not be justified in doing so.) One day I’m writing about autoerotic asphyxiation, the next about Meinong’s Gegenstandstheorie.
“Specialization is for insects.” (Robert A. Heinlein)
And the next day about the relation between these two 😉
FWIW I have enjoyed reading your article Bill. And the phenomenon you pointed to is very much real and widespread even among real deal philosophers like Kripke. To top it off, the name tag Kripkenstein was not given in vain either. But that wasn’t due to lack of Kripke’s reading of Wittgenstein.