{"id":12935,"date":"2008-11-12T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T18:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/12\/why-i-am-such-a\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T18:01:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T18:01:57","slug":"why-i-am-such-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/12\/why-i-am-such-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am Such a Hot Ticket on the Party Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plato-Platypus-Walk-into-Understanding\/dp\/081091493X\">Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes<\/a>, Abrams Image 2007, pp. 183-184:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contemporary philosopher William Vallicella writes, &#8220;Metaphilosophy is the philosophy of philosophy. It is itself a branch of philosophy, unlike the philosophy of science, which is not a branch of science, or the philosophy of religion, which is not a branch of religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is statements like this that have made Vallicella such a hot ticket on the party circuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read the book, so I can&#8217;t tell you what I think of it. The only reason I know about the above citation is because Dymphna of <a href=\"http:\/\/gatesofvienna.blogspot.com\/\">Gates of Vienna<\/a> drew it to my attention.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, Abrams Image 2007, pp. 183-184: Contemporary philosopher William Vallicella writes, &#8220;Metaphilosophy is the philosophy of philosophy. It is itself a branch of philosophy, unlike the philosophy of science, which is not a branch of science, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/12\/why-i-am-such-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I am Such a Hot Ticket on the Party Circuit&#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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935","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=12935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}