{"id":5722,"date":"2017-03-05T04:47:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T04:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/05\/omerta-among-the-philosophers\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T04:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T04:47:42","slug":"omerta-among-the-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/05\/omerta-among-the-philosophers\/","title":{"rendered":"Omert\u00e0 Among the Philosophers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Neven Sesardic\u2019s recent book, When Reason Goes on Holiday<\/em><\/a>, provides a detailed account of the morally questionable actions undertaken in the interest of political causes by some of the most important philosophers in the analytic tradition: Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Imre Lakatos, Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, among several others. Some of their actions were not just questionable from a moral point of view, but outright reprehensible. Yet, as Sesardic points out in the conclusion to his book, the reaction from the philosophical community has been one of utter indifference . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My plug of Sesardi\u0107  below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Reading Now: <i>When Reason Goes on Holiday<\/i> (Encounter, 2016)<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a>Carnap and Clarity<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a>Heidegger, Carnap, Das Nichts, and the Analytic-Continental Schism<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a>Simone Weil in the Light of Plato: Notes on Phaedo 83<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: Neven Sesardic\u2019s recent book, When Reason Goes on Holiday, provides a detailed account of the morally questionable actions undertaken in the interest of political causes by some of the most important philosophers in the analytic tradition: Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Imre Lakatos, Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, among several others. Some of their actions were … Continue reading “Omert\u00e0 Among the Philosophers”<\/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":[52,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","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=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}