Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Anti-Philosophy

Remarks on David Stove’s The Plato Cult

The following is excerpted from a November 2004 entry on my first weblog. I like Stove's political conservatism but I don't much cotton to his positivism. The original entry of 2004 is prefaced with a polemical screed in which I denounce Stove as an anti-philosopher, and with some justice. But nowadays I direct my polemic…

September 28, 2019
David Stove Pays Tribute to David Armstrong and Comments on the Malignancy of the Left

Excerpt: But, while David has never aspired to put the world right by philosophy, the world for its part has not been equally willing to let him and philosophy alone in return. Quite the reverse. His tenure of the Chair turned out to coincide with an enormous attack on philosophy, and on humanistic learning in…

September 28, 2019
Philosophy as Misosophy? Religion as Misology?

Here at Maverick Philosopher: Strictly Philosophical

November 13, 2018
Should Nagel’s Book Be on the Philosophical Index Librorum Prohibitorum?

Via Reppert's blog I came to an article by Simon Blackburn about Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos. The article ends as follows: There is charm to reading a philosopher who confesses to finding things bewildering. But I regret the appearance of this book. It will only bring comfort to creationists and fans of “intelligent design”, who will…

March 20, 2013
The Fly and the Fly Bottle

Why does the bug need to be shown the way out? Pop the cork and he's gone. Why did Wittgenstein feel the need to philosophize his way out of philosophy? He should have known that metaphilosophy and anti-philosophy are just more philosophy with all that that entails: inconclusiveness, endlessness . . . . He should…

November 16, 2010