{"id":7056,"date":"2015-07-04T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/04\/against-professional-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2015-07-04T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:21:19","slug":"against-professional-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/04\/against-professional-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Professional Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is some interesting material <a href=\"http:\/\/againstprofphil.org\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.&#0160; Certainly contemporary academic philosophy in the Anglosphere and elsewhere is over-specialized and hyper-professionalized.&#0160; A critique is needed.&#0160; I have given the APP effort only a cursory reading, so I won&#39;t say anything more about it now except to observe that the contributors are anonymous. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I should think that if one is serious about what one maintains and wants to be taken seriously, one should show some civil courage, speak in one&#39;s own name, and witness to the truth as one sees it.&#0160; And this especially in the case of one of the contributors, Z, who describes himself as follows:&#0160; &quot;Z is a 50-something cosmopolitan anarcho-philosopher, and previously was a tenured full professor of philosophy at a public university somewhere in North America, but still managed to escape with his life.&quot; Why so coy?<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Or is Z still afraid of this guy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d132b95b970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leiter-537x350\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d132b95b970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d132b95b970c-320wi\" title=\"Leiter-537x350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Companion post: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/05\/civil-courage.html\" target=\"_self\">Civil Courage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some interesting material here.&#0160; Certainly contemporary academic philosophy in the Anglosphere and elsewhere is over-specialized and hyper-professionalized.&#0160; A critique is needed.&#0160; I have given the APP effort only a cursory reading, so I won&#39;t say anything more about it now except to observe that the contributors are anonymous. &#0160; I should think that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/04\/against-professional-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Against Professional 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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","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=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}