{"id":5890,"date":"2017-01-05T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/05\/why-isnt-there-more-progress-in-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:13:39","slug":"why-isnt-there-more-progress-in-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/05\/why-isnt-there-more-progress-in-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn&#8217;t There More Progress in Philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/consc.net\/papers\/progress.pdf\">An article<\/a> by David J. Chalmers. &#0160;(HT: Dave Lull) &#0160;I read nine pages into it before I got bored. &#0160;And this despite my fascination with metaphilosophy. &#0160;So I went back to reading Klavan&#39;s memoir. &#0160;I am now on p. 173 of this &#39;page-turner.&#39; &#0160;I am marking it up something fierce. Damn if it isn&#39;t good! &#0160; Scroll down for a couple of Klavan entries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I spent the afternoon out back in T-shirt and shorts, drinking chai and enjoying a cheap cigar, on this, the fifth day of January, <em>anno domini<\/em> 2017. &#0160;It was nippy during my pre-dawn hike, though, circa 50 on the Fahrenheit scale. &#0160;I had to don a long-sleeved shirt. Life is tough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">A view from my stoa (click to enlarge, and again to <em>enlarge<\/em>):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c8c45d11970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0957\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c8c45d11970b image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c8c45d11970b-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0957\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by David J. Chalmers. &#0160;(HT: Dave Lull) &#0160;I read nine pages into it before I got bored. &#0160;And this despite my fascination with metaphilosophy. &#0160;So I went back to reading Klavan&#39;s memoir. &#0160;I am now on p. 173 of this &#39;page-turner.&#39; &#0160;I am marking it up something fierce. Damn if it isn&#39;t good! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/05\/why-isnt-there-more-progress-in-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Isn&#8217;t There More Progress in Philosophy?&#8221;<\/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":[20,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890","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=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}