{"id":12922,"date":"2008-11-20T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/20\/world-philosophy-day\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T19:11:28","slug":"world-philosophy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/20\/world-philosophy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Philosophy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seldom Seen Slim apprised me of the fact that today is World Philosophy Day.&#0160; BBC&#0160;story <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/7739493.stmttp:\/\/\">here<\/a>.&#0160; I got a kick out of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As Princeton philosopher David Lewis once said: &quot;When philosophers follow where argument leads, too often they are led to doctrines indistinguishable from sheer lunacy.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">This from a philosopher whose mad dog modal realism is itself hard by the boundary of lunacy.&#0160; Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seldom Seen Slim apprised me of the fact that today is World Philosophy Day.&#0160; BBC&#0160;story here.&#0160; I got a kick out of this: As Princeton philosopher David Lewis once said: &quot;When philosophers follow where argument leads, too often they are led to doctrines indistinguishable from sheer lunacy.&quot; This from a philosopher whose mad dog modal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/20\/world-philosophy-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Philosophy Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}