{"id":5409,"date":"2017-06-21T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/andrew-m-baileys-analytic-philosophy-generator-and-the-scholasticism-charge\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:07:15","slug":"andrew-m-baileys-analytic-philosophy-generator-and-the-scholasticism-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/andrew-m-baileys-analytic-philosophy-generator-and-the-scholasticism-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew M. Bailey’s Analytic Philosophy Generator and the ‘Scholasticism Charge’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AnalPhilGen<\/em> is a bit of humor<\/a> from occasional MavPhil<\/em> commenter Andrew Bailey<\/a>.  I generated the following using Bailey's 'device': <\/span><\/p>\n

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It is a consequence of proper functionalism that polyadic predicates reduce to non-human consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the standard Kripkean modal semantics, trope theories supervene on something like Rawls' famous Difference Principle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intuitively it seems obvious that both definite descriptions and proper names always lead to zombie arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I came to Bailey's Analytic Philosophy Generator by way of a crappy article that complains about the 'scholasticism' of contemporary philosophy "talking about itself to itself in its own jargon."  The article suggests that most of what analytic philosophers write is as meaningless as the above three sentences. The just-quoted phrase suggests that the problems of philosophy discussed by academic philosophers in their narrowly-focused, jargon-laden books and articles are not 'real,' but are merely artifacts of a highly ingrown way of talking.  <\/span><\/p>\n

This is simply not the case. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you are a philosophy 'insider' you know this; if an 'outsider' then you probably cannot be 'reached.'  Or maybe you can. Let someone else try.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is the crappy article.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The AnalPhilGen is a bit of humor from occasional MavPhil commenter Andrew Bailey.  I generated the following using Bailey's 'device':  It is a consequence of proper functionalism that polyadic predicates reduce to non-human consciousness. On the standard Kripkean modal semantics, trope theories supervene on something like Rawls' famous Difference Principle. Intuitively it seems obvious that both … Continue reading “Andrew M. Bailey’s Analytic Philosophy Generator and the ‘Scholasticism Charge’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","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=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}